Nanomaterials exhibit structural and functional heterogeneity among individual
nanoparticles, thus requiring a capability to study single nanoparticles. While electron …

Plasmonic nanocavities have proved to confine electromagnetic fields into deep
subwavelength volumes, implying their potentials for enhanced optical trap** and sensing …

For several decades optical tweezers have proven to be an invaluable tool in the study and
analysis of myriad biological responses and applications. However, as with every tool, they …

Trap** a single aerosol particle allows detailed investigation of its fundamental properties
over extended time periods without external interferences. Optical trap** has developed …

The ability to manipulate small particles of matter using the forces of light, optical trap**,
forms the basis of a number of exciting research areas, spanning fundamental physics …

Sensors are excellent options owing to their ability to figure out a large number of problems
and challenges in several areas, including homeland security, defense, medicine …

The technique of Raman tweezers microspectroscopy (RTM) for the global biomolecular
content characterization of a single extracellular vesicle (EV) or a small number of EVs or …

The utilizations of microfluidic chips for single RBC (red blood cell) studies have attracted
great interests in recent years to filter, trap, analyze, and release single erythrocytes for …

Molecular imaging has rapidly developed to answer the need of image contrast in medical
diagnostic imaging to go beyond morphological information to include functional differences …

From the early optical-tweezers approach, which uses a single tightly focused laser beam to
levitate dielectric or absorbing micron-sized particles, to the recently developed optical traps …