User:Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/05/25/LED illumination for video-enhanced DIC imaging of single microtubules

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These are my notes. Please read the paper before reading my notes.

They thermally insulate the LED from the condensing arm.
They only used a red, blue or green LED. They didn't attempt to combine the 3 to make white light.
Wow. They took the LEDs up to 2A!
Their flow cells are only 3mm in width.
HA! They used "BRB80" as their buffer.
They also wrote some custom LabVIEW 7.1 code using pattern matching algorithms. Man, we are not original.
Yep, they sufficiently proved to me that LEDs are the way to go for a condenser.