Optical trapping of nanoshells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6644, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hester, Brooke C ^a   Crawford, Alice ^a   Kishore, Rani B ^a   Helmerson, Kristian ^a   Halas, Naomi J ^b   Levin, Carly ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanoshell; Optical trapping; Optical tweezers; Plasmon; Resonant trapping

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PLASMONS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; RESONANCE; WAVELENGTH;

LASER WAVELENGTH; NANOSHELLS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 42149147845     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.735276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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