Measurements of displacement and trapping force on micron-sized particles in optical tweezers system

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 919-925

  Guo, Honglian ^a   Yao, Xincheng ^a   Li, Zhaolin ^a   Cheng, Bingying ^a   Han, Xuehai ^b   Zhang, Daozhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Displacement; Force; Optical tweezers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036657678     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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