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20132026
most citedA self-calibrating optomechanical force sensor with femtonewton resolution

65 citations · 185 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

From London to Morse via Binnig, Quate, and Gerber

Sofia Alonso Perez, Matthew O. Blunt, Frederick Carlisle +30

In their landmark paper introducing the atomic force microscope [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{56}, 930 (1986)], Binnig, Quate, and Gerber presciently anticipated that the technique wou…

physics.ins-det2021★ 23 cited

Multi-modal microscopy imaging with the OpenFlexure Delta Stage

Samuel McDermott, Filip Ayazi, Joel Collins +4

Microscopes are vital pieces of equipment in much of biological research and medical diagnostics. However, access to a microscope can represent a bottleneck in research, especially…

physics.ins-det2021

Fast, high precision autofocus on a motorised microscope: automating blood sample imaging on the OpenFlexure Microscope

Joe Knapper, Joel T. Collins, Julian Stirling +3

The OpenFlexure Microscope is a 3D printed, low-cost microscope capable of automated image acquisition through the use of a motorised translation stage and a Raspberry Pi imaging s…

physics.ins-det2021★ 9 cited

Modern Microscopy with the Web of Things: The OpenFlexure Microscope Software Stack

Joel T. Collins, Joe Knapper, Julian Stirling +2

Automated and computerised control of scientific instrumentation is almost ubiquitous in the modern laboratory. Most instrumentation is controlled over decades old communication bu…

physics.ins-det2019★ 22 cited

Flat-field and colour correction for the Raspberry Pi camera module

Richard Bowman, Boyko Vodenicharski, Joel Collins +1

The Raspberry Pi camera module is widely used in open source hardware projects as a low cost camera sensor. However, when the stock lens is removed and replaced with other custom o…

physics.ins-det2019★ 15 cited

The OpenFlexure Block Stage: Sub-100 nm fibre alignment with a monolithic plastic flexure stage

Qingxin Meng, Kerrianne Harrington, Julian Stirling +1

As 3D printers become more widely available, researchers are able to rapidly produce components that may have previously taken weeks to have machined. The resulting plastic compone…

gr-qc2017★ 6 cited

Closed form expressions for gravitational multipole moments of elementary solids

Julian Stirling, Stephan Schlamminger

Perhaps the most powerful method for deriving the Newtonian gravitational interaction between two masses is the multipole expansion. Once inner multipoles are calculated for a part…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 65 cited

A self-calibrating optomechanical force sensor with femtonewton resolution

John Melcher, Julian Stirling, Felipe Guzman Cervantes +2

We report the development of an ultrasensitive optomechanical sensor designed to improve the accuracy and precision of force measurements with atomic force microscopy. The sensors…

physics.data-an2013★ 45 cited

Critical assessment of the evidence for striped nanoparticles

Julian Stirling, Ioannis Lekkas, Adam Sweetman +5

There is now a significant body of literature in which it is claimed that stripes form in the ligand shell of suitably functionalised Au nanoparticles. This stripe morphology has b…