Irradiation of Dye-Doped Microspheres with a Strongly Focused Laser Beam Results in Alignment upon Optical Trapping

Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 207-210

  Simpson, Garth J ^a,b   Wohland, Thorsten ^a   Zare, Richard N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000871473     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl015632d     Document Type: Article

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