Probably, but with the focal point basically being the back of the phone, it wouldn’t help much. Microscopes are relatively cheap these days so maybe put the $40 towards a better instrument.

The Cary 610 is a single point FTIR microscope, capable of mapping, while the Cary 620 is a Focal Plane Array (FPA) chemical imaging FTIR microscope. With the option to couple the microscope to ...

the scanning function moves the focal point around through the sample in three dimensions, capturing spatial data to go along with the optical information. The stage of [Zach]’s microscope is ba ...

By eliminating signals that originate from outside the focal plane, confocal microscopy ... integration to virtually any upright or inverted microscope (not included) with access to the ...