Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Plasmonic optical tweezers that stem from the need to trap and manipulate ever smaller
particles using non-invasive optical forces, have made significant contributions to precise …

It has previously been shown that strong flow transients, reaching mm/s flow speeds, are
induced when microscopic vapor bubbles nucleate on spatially isolated laser-heated …

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is optically sensitive and chemically specific to
detect single-molecule spectroscopic signatures. Facilitating this capability in optically …

Develo** on‐chip functional devices requires reliable fabrication methods with high
resolution for miniaturization, desired components for enhanced performance, and high …

Thermo-osmosis driven by temperature gradients generally requires two liquid reservoirs at
different temperatures connected by porous bodies or capillaries. We demonstrate, by …

We demonstrate manipulation of microbeads with diameters from 1.5 to 10 µm and Jurkat
cells within a thin fluidic device using the combined effect of thermophoresis and thermal …

Guiding analytes to the sensing area is an indispensable step in a sensing system. Most of
the sensing systems apply a passive sensing method, which waits for the analytes to diffuse …

In this mini-review, recent advances on the role of a focused laser in micro-and nanofluidic
systems is widely introduced with special interest in thermo-fluid dynamical aspects and …

Noble metal nanoparticles illuminated at their plasmonic resonance wavelength turn into
heat nanosources. This phenomenon has prompted the development of numerous …