Optoelectronic tweezers: a versatile toolbox for nano-/micro-manipulation

S Zhang, B Xu, M Elsayed, F Nan, W Liang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Biological applications of ferroelectric materials

A Blázquez-Castro, A García-Cabañes… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The study and applications of ferroelectric materials in the biomedical and biotechnological
fields is a novel and very promising scientific area that spans roughly one decade. However …

Lithium niobate meta-optics

A Fedotova, L Carletti, A Zilli, F Setzpfandt… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rapid development of optical metasurfaces, 2D ensembles of engineered
nanostructures, is presently underpinning a steady drive toward the miniaturization of many …

Broadband, high‐Sensitivity graphene photodetector based on ferroelectric polarization of lithium niobate

H Guan, J Hong, X Wang, J Ming… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D graphene has attracted extensive attention as a promising candidate for high‐
performance photodetectors because of its superior optoelectronic properties. However, the …

LiNbO3 surfaces from a microscopic perspective

S Sanna, WG Schmidt - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A large number of oxides has been investigated in the last twenty years as possible new
materials for various applications ranging from opto-electronics to heterogeneous catalysis …

LiNbO3: A photovoltaic substrate for massive parallel manipulation and patterning of nano-objects

M Carrascosa, A García-Cabañes, M Jubera… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The application of evanescent photovoltaic (PV) fields, generated by visible illumination of
Fe: LiNbO 3 substrates, for parallel massive trap** and manipulation of micro-and nano …

Recent achievements on photovoltaic optoelectronic tweezers based on lithium niobate

A García-Cabañes, A Blázquez-Castro, L Arizmendi… - Crystals, 2018 - mdpi.com
This review presents an up-dated summary of the fundamentals and applications of
optoelectronic photovoltaic tweezers for trap** and manipulation of nano-objects on the …

Optofluidic droplet router

M Esseling, A Zaltron, W Horn… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This contribution presents an optofluidic droplet router which is able to route and steer
microdroplets using optically induced forces created solely by the bulk photovoltaic effect on …

Photovoltaic Manipulation of Water Microdroplets on a Hydrophobic Substrate

B Fan, F Li, L Chen, L Shi, W Yan, Y Zhang, S Li… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
Aqueous microdroplets are challenging objects for photoassisted manipulation techniques
based on lithium niobate (LN) substrates. In this paper, we demonstrate a successful …

Dielectrophoresis-electrophoresis transition during the photovoltaic manipulation of water microdroplets on LiNbO3:Fe platform

B Gao, X Cao, C Wang, Z Gao, X Liu, M Wang, J Yan… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The abrupt behaviors of microdroplets during the LN-based photovoltaic manipulation may
cause the transient instability and even failure of the microfluidic manipulation. In this paper …