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Follow on Google News | BF TechCelerator Boot Camp Participants Win $100,000 in Innovation CompetitionTheir innovation, which is called the G-Fresnel Cell-phone spectrometer, is not only compact and affordable, but has a broad ranges of applications.
By: Ben Franklin Technology Partners The winners, Zhiwen Liu, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Perry Edwards, and Chuan Yang, both of whom are PhD candidates, developed an affordable, high-performance optical spectrometer which when integrated with a cellular phone, makes optical spectroscopy accessible to everyone. Their innovation, which is called the G-Fresnel Cell-phone spectrometer, is not only compact and affordable, but has a broad ranges of applications, such as breast cancer detection, monitoring surgical wounds, and color analysis for assisting people with color blindness. For more information, see http://ultrafastoptics.ee.psu.edu/ The Vodafone Americas Foundation 2013 Wireless Innovation Project Competition ™ was open to non-governmental organizations, universities, non-profits and health-related organizations. The Wireless Innovation Project Competition TM attracts numerous submissions from across the world. By providing both financial support and access to its vast resources throughout the world, the Vodafone America Foundation helps its winners advance their projects to the next level of development. End
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