Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trap** and beyond

Y Zhang, C Min, X Dou, X Wang, HP Urbach… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Enhanced optical spectroscopy for multiplexed DNA and protein-sequencing with plasmonic nanopores: Challenges and prospects

W Li, J Zhou, N Maccaferri, R Krahne, K Wang… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plasmonics is the discipline that investigates the use of collective oscillations of conductive
electrons in metallic nanostructures, called surface plasmons (SPs), to realize a large set of …

Plasmonic optical tweezers for particle manipulation: principles, methods, and applications

Y Ren, Q Chen, M He, X Zhang, H Qi, Y Yan - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Plasmonic optical tweezers based on nanostructures: fundamentals, advances and prospects

DG Kotsifaki, SN Chormaic - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
The ability of metallic nanostructures to confine light at the sub-wavelength scale enables
new perspectives and opportunities in the field of nanotechnology. Making use of this …

Novel plasmonic nanocavities for optical trap**‐assisted biosensing applications

AN Koya, J Cunha, TL Guo, A Toma… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic nanocavities have proved to confine electromagnetic fields into deep
subwavelength volumes, implying their potentials for enhanced optical trap** and sensing …

Nano‐Optical Tweezing of Single Proteins in Plasmonic Nanopores

D Verschueren, X Shi, C Dekker - Small Methods, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐molecule sensing technologies aim to detect and characterize single biomolecules,
but generally need labeling while the measurement times and throughput are severely …

Biosensing with nanoaperture optical tweezers

R Gordon - Optics & Laser Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoaperture optical tweezers extend the range of optical tweezers to dielectric particles
below 50 nm in size. This allows for optical trap** of proteins, DNA fragments and other …

Temperature measurement in plasmonic nanoapertures used for optical trap**

Q Jiang, B Rogez, JB Claude, G Baffou… - ACS photonics, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanoapertures generate strong field gradients enabling efficient optical trap**
of nano-objects. However, because the infrared laser used for trap** is also partly …

Mirror-enhanced plasmonic nanoaperture for ultrahigh optical force generation with minimal heat generation

T Anyika, I Hong, JC Ndukaife - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Double Nanohole Plasmonic Tweezers (DNH) have emerged as a powerful approach for
confining light to sub-wavelength volume, enabling the trap** of nanoscale particles much …

High-speed nanoscale optical trap** with plasmonic double nanohole aperture

T Anyika, C Hong, JC Ndukaife - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical trap** with plasmonic double nanohole (DNH) apertures has proven to be an
efficient method for trap** sub-50 nm particles due to their suppressed plasmonic heating …