Processing carbon nanotubes with holographic optical tweezers

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1978-1981

  Plewa, Joseph ^a   Tanner, Evan ^a   Mueth, Daniel M ^a   Grier, David G ^b  

^a Arryx Inc   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SUBSTRATES;

OPTICAL FABRICATION; OPTICAL TRAPPING; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2942729955     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001978     Document Type: Article

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