What It Is, How Its Made & How It Works

The Cellphone Spectrometer:

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Spectrometry: More than the purview of expert engineers

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In order to get across the idea, 'I can do it, and I can see it, and I can understand it,' they've go to build the instrument themselves. - Alexander Scheeline, 2009
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Meet Alexander Scheeline.

He wanted to see students using their cellphones in class. Not for texting or surfing the Web, but as an analytical chemistry instrument. Truly, all you need are a few basic, inexpensive components and a cellphone to build a spectrometer.
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The cellphone is the photodetector that everybody has.

If you can get the picture from the cellphone into the computer, it's only software that keeps you from building a cheap spectrophotometer.

And so, Scheeline wrote the software. 4/22/12

The Cellphone Photodetector: Converting light into numbers

1. Light reaches the cameras detector surface.

2. Regions in the detector are sensitive to color. (Red, Green, Blue)

3. More light, more electrons, more charge.

The resulting number corresponds to a bitmap (BMP) file. This is too large, so a compressed version, JPEG, is usually used. 4. Analog-to-Digital Converter: Generates a number proportional to amount of charge. The software that Scheeline wrote analyzes JPEG files, and its available online so yes, we did it.

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: A construct out of household materials

All you actually need is a shoebox, an old disc you dont use anymore, some pipes, a camera-equipped cellphone and of course, knowledge in 4/22/12 spectrometry.

The Cellphone Spectrometer: 1. You need a sample first!

Anything colored can be your sample. Our group chose to analyze a yellow-orange colored drink, melon juice.
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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 2. Lights off, please.

Turning off the light is imperative! It will minimize the amount of stray light. 4/22/12

The Cellphone Spectrometer: 3. The samples position matters.

The sample is now ready for analysis!

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 4. Dont forget to take a blank!

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 5. Take a shot now.

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 5. Heres the interface of Scheelines software.

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 6. Load reference, load sample.

Referenc Upload the pictures into the program. e Load the picture of your reference reading by going to 'file > load reference (right) > (your directory pathway)', then do the same to your 4/22/12 spectrum sample

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 7. Theres a red end; theres a blue end.

Once the spectra are uploaded, simply click on one side of the sample spectrum on your screen. A box will appear, asking you to specify if it is the red or blue end of the spectrum. Choose the correct answer and repeat the procedure at the other end of your sample. There should now be a green line connecting the red and blue ends of your spectrum. Run through the same procedure with your reference spectrum. 4/22/12

The Cellphone Spectrometer: 8. The sample and its absorbance

Spend a bit of time exploring the 'Plot trace selection' portion.

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 9. The sample and its transmittance

Spend a bit of time exploring the 'Plot trace selection' portion.

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The Cellphone Spectrometer: 10. The sample and its intensity

Spend a bit of time exploring the 'Plot trace selection' portion.

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Yes, you can make your own cellphone spectrometer, too!

Just visit the site below for more details!

http://www.asdlib.org/onlineArticles/elabware/Scheeline _Kelly_Spectrophotometer/index.html

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