Trapping solid aerosols with optical tweezers: A comparison between gas and liquid phase optical traps

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7739-7747

  Summers, M D ^a   Burnham, D R ^a,b   McGloin, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DELIVERY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SILICA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LIQUID PHASE OPTICAL TRAPS; SOLID AEROSOLS;

AEROSOLS;

WATER;

AEROSOL; AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DRUG MIXTURE; GAS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHASE TRANSITION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

AEROSOLS; AIR; COLLOIDS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; GASES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHASE TRANSITION; SOLUTIONS; WATER;

EID: 44649164479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007739     Document Type: Article

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