Magneto-optical tweezers built around an inverted microscope

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3454-3457

  Claudet, Cyril ^a   Bednar, Jan ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DNA; ELECTROMAGNETS; MAGNETIZATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION; RNA;

ACTIN FILAMENTS; MAGNETIC ATTACHMENT; NANOMETER-PRECISION POSITIONING; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MAGNETISM; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DNA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MAGNETICS; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 20844458611     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003454     Document Type: Article

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