About the Authors

Alon Greenbaum

Affiliation Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Najva Akbari

Affiliation Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alborz Feizi

Affiliation Bioengineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wei Luo

Affiliation Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Aydogan Ozcan

ozcan@ucla.edu

Affiliations Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Bioengineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

A. Ozcan is the co-founder of a start-up company (Holomic LLC) that aims to commercialize lensfree microscopy tools. This work was done at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). All the related patents and the intellectual property resulting from this work are owned by UCLA and are managed and prosecuted by the Office of Intellectual Property at UCLA. The authors declare no other commercial interest or related companies. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG AO. Performed the experiments: AG NA AF WL. Analyzed the data: AG AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG NA AF WL. Wrote the paper: AG AO. Supervised the project: AO.