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Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond
Light: Science & Applications, 2021 Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects.
Yuquan Zhang +6 more
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Opto-thermoelectric speckle tweezers
Nanophotonics, 2020 Opto-thermoelectric tweezers present a new paradigm for optical trapping and manipulation of particles using low-power and simple optics. New real-life applications of opto-thermoelectric tweezers in areas such as biophysics, microfluidics, and ...
Kotnala Abhay +2 more
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Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2021 The fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) microscale structures is critical for many applications, including strong and lightweight material development, medical device fabrication, microrobotics, and photonic applications.
J. Melzer, E. Mcleod
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On-chip optical tweezers based on freeform optics
Optica, 2021 Since its advent in the 1970s, optical tweezers have been widely deployed as a preferred non-contact technique for manipulating microscale objects. On-chip integrated optical tweezers, which afford significant size, weight, and cost benefits, have been ...
Shaoliang Yu +8 more
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A quantum-network register assembled with optical tweezers in an optical cavity [PDF]
ScienceQuantum computation and quantum communication are expected to provide users with capabilities inaccessible by classical physics. However, scalability to larger systems with many qubits is challenging.
Lukas Hartung +4 more
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All-dielectric silicon metalens for two-dimensional particle manipulation in optical tweezers [PDF]
Photonics Research, 2020 Dynamic control of compact chip-scale contactless manipulation of particles for bioscience applications remains a challenging endeavor, which is restrained by the balance between trapping efficiency and scalable apparatus.
T. Chantakit +6 more
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Optical Tweezers Approaches for Probing Multiscale Protein Mechanics and Assembly
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 Multi-step assembly of individual protein building blocks is key to the formation of essential higher-order structures inside and outside of cells. Optical tweezers is a technique well suited to investigate the mechanics and dynamics of these structures ...
Kathrin Lehmann +7 more
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Nano-Optical Tweezers: Methods and Applications for Trapping Single Molecules and Nanoparticles.
ChemPhysChem, 2021 Optical tweezers were developed in 1970 by Arthur Ashkin as a tool for the manipulation of micron-sized particles. Ashkin's original design was then adapted for a variety of purposes, such as trapping and manipulation of biological materials and the ...
Joshua D. Kolbow +4 more
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Single-Molecule Studies of Protein Folding with Optical Tweezers.
Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2020 Manipulation of individual molecules with optical tweezers provides a powerful means of interrogating the structure and folding of proteins. Mechanical force is not only a relevant quantity in cellular protein folding and function, but also a convenient ...
C. Bustamante +3 more
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Ray Optics Model for Optical Trapping of Biconcave Red Blood Cells
Micromachines, 2022 Red blood cells (RBCs) or erythrocytes are essential for oxygenating the peripherical tissue in the human body. Impairment of their physical properties may lead to severe diseases. Optical tweezers have in experiments been shown to be a powerful tool for
Riccardo Tognato, Philip H. Jones
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