Self-rotation of an assembly of two or more cylindrical objects in optical tweezers: A simple approach for realization of optically driven micromotors

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 695-698

  Mohanty, Samarendra K ^a   Gupta, Pradeep K ^a   Verma, Ravi S ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Microfluidics; Micromotors; Optical trapping; Optical tweezers

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748908980     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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