Application of laser tweezers for material science studies

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5736, Issue , 2005, Pages 10-15

  Kachynski, A V ^a   Kuzmin, A N ^a   Prasad, P N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser tweezers; Liquid crystals; Micromanipulation; Temperature measurement; Trapping forces; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

LASER TWEEZERS; MICROMANIPULATION; PHOTONICS; TRAPPING FORCES;

FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROMETERS; MOLECULES; SOL-GELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 21844446081     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.588651     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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4. I.I. Smalyukh, A.N. Kuzmin, A.A. Kachynski, P.N. Prasad, and O.D. Lavrentovich. Optical trapping of colloidal particles and measurement of the defect line tension and colloidal forces in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal. Appl.Phys.Lett. 86, 02113 (2005).