Manipulating metal-oxide nanowires using counter-propagating optical line tweezers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11629-11639

  Van Der Horst, Astrid ^a,b   Campbell, Andrew I ^a   Van Vugt, Lambert K ^a   Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel A M ^a   Dogterom, Marileen ^b   Van Blaaderen, Alfons ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; MOS DEVICES; NANOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

AXIAL TRAPPING; NANOPHOTONICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRAPPING;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 34548398143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011629     Document Type: Article

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