Trapping double negative particles in the ray optics regime using optical tweezers with focused beams

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21918-21924

  Ambrosio, Leonardo André ^a   Hernandez Figueroa H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BIOLOGICAL CELLS; DOUBLE NEGATIVES; FOCUSED BEAMS; NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY; RAY OPTICS; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; TRAPPING CHARACTERISTIC;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

MICROSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CELL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 72449121345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021918     Document Type: Article

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