Nanoscale optical trap**: a review

C Bradac - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Optical trap** is the craft of manipulating objects with light. Decades after its first inception
in 1970, the technique has become a powerful tool for ultracold‐atom physics and …

Optical manipulation: from fluid to solid domains

Q Jia, W Lyu, W Yan, W Tang, J Lu, M Qiu - Photonics Insights, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Light carries energy and momentum, laying the physical foundation of optical manipulation
that has facilitated advances in myriad scientific disciplines, ranging from biochemistry and …

Plasmonic optical tweezers toward molecular manipulation: tailoring plasmonic nanostructure, light source, and resonant trap**

T Shoji, Y Tsuboi - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
This Perspective describes recent progress in optical trap**s of nanoparticles based on
localized surface plasmon. This plasmonic optical trap** has great advantages over the …

Laser trap** chemistry: from polymer assembly to amino acid crystallization

T Sugiyama, K Yuyama… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Laser trap** has served as a useful tool in physics and biology, but, before our work,
chemists had not paid much attention to this technique because molecules are too small to …

Permanent fixing or reversible trap** and release of DNA micropatterns on a gold nanostructure using continuous-wave or femtosecond-pulsed near-infrared laser …

T Shoji, J Saitoh, N Kitamura, F Nagasawa… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The use of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) for highly sensitive biosensors has already
been investigated, and they are currently being applied for the optical manipulation of small …

A single large assembly with dynamically fluctuating swarms of gold nanoparticles formed by trap** laser

T Kudo, SJ Yang, H Masuhara - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Laser trap** has been utilized as tweezers to three-dimensionally trap nanoscale objects
and has provided significant impacts in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The objects are …

Optical force-induced chemistry at solution surfaces

H Masuhara, K Yuyama - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
When an intense 1,064-nm continuous-wave laser is tightly focused at solution surfaces, it
exerts an optical force on molecules, polymers, and nanoparticles (NPs). Initially, molecules …

Optical trap** of NaYF 4: Er 3+, Yb 3+ upconverting fluorescent nanoparticles

P Haro-Gonzalez, B del Rosal, LM Maestro… - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on the first experimental observation of stable optical trap** of dielectric NaYF4:
Er3+, Yb3+ upconverting fluorescent nanoparticles (∼ 26 nm in diameter) using a …

Unified treatment of nonlinear optical force in laser trap** of dielectric particles of varying sizes

A Devi, AK De - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Optical trap** using laser tweezer has revolutionized the field of force spectroscopy
having enormous applications in biological manipulation. While a number of theories were …

Reversible photoinduced formation and manipulation of a two-dimensional closely packed assembly of polystyrene nanospheres on a metallic nanostructure

T Shoji, M Shibata, N Kitamura… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Nanostructure-enhanced optical trap** of polymer beads was investigated by means of
fluorescence microspectroscopy. It was found that trap** behavior was quite sensitive to …