Light-driven nanoscale plasmonic motors

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 570-573

  Liu, Ming ^a   Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Liu, Yongmin ^a   Bartal, Guy ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE ENCODING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; RADIOMETERS; SILICA;

INCIDENT LIGHT; LINEAR MOMENTA; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; PLASMONIC MODES; ROTATION VELOCITY; ROTATIONAL FORCES; THERMAL TRANSPIRATION; WILLIAM CROOKES;

LIGHT;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ILLUMINATION; NANOIMAGING; NANOMOTOR; NANOSCALE PLASMONIC MOTOR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION;

EID: 77956444539     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.128     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Crookes, W. Attraction and repulsion caused by radiation. Nature 12, 125 (1875).
2. Reynolds, O. On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. Part II. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 170, 727-845 (1879).
3. Allemand, J. F., Bensimon, D., Lavery, R. & Croquette, V. Stretched and overwound DNA forms a Pauling-like structure with exposed bases. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 95, 14152-14157 (1998).
4. Bryant, Z. et al. Structural transitions and elasticity from torque measurements on DNA. Nature 424, 338-341 (2003).
5. Abels, J. A., Moreno-Herrero, F., van der Heijden, T., Dekker, C. & Dekker, N. H. Single-molecule measurements of the persistence length of double-stranded RNA. Biophys. J. 88, 2737-2744 (2005).
6. Gore, J. et al. DNA overwinds when stretched. Nature 442, 836-839 (2006).
7. Fennimore, A. M. et al. Rotational actuators based on carbon nanotubes. Nature 424, 408-410 (2003).
8. Judy, J. W. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS): fabrication, design and applications. Smart Mater. Struct. 10, 1115-1134 (2001).
9. Lehmann, O. & Stuke, M. Laser-driven movement of 3-dimensional microstructures generated by laser rapid prototyping. Science 270, 1644-1646 (1995).
10. Eelkema, R. et al. Nanomotor rotates microscale objects. Nature 440, 163 (2006).
11. Grier, D. G. A revolution in optical manipulation. Nature 424, 810-816 (2003).
12. Kippenberg, T. J. & Vahala, K. J. Cavity optomechanics: back-action at the mesoscale. Science 321, 1172-1176 (2008).
13. Beth, R. A. Mechanical detection and measurement of the angular momentum of light. Phys. Rev. 50, 115-125 (1936).
14. Willets, K. A. & Van Duyne, R. P. Localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and sensing. Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 58, 267-297 (2007).
15. Kinkhabwala, A. et al. Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna. Nature Photon. 3, 654-657 (2009).
16. Maier, S. A. et al. Local detection of electromagnetic energy transport below the diffraction limit in metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides. Nature Mater 2, 229-232 (2003).
17. Landau, L. D. & Lifshitz, E. M. in Mechanics Vol. 1 (Butterworth Heinemann, 1976).
18. Pendry, J. B., Holden, A. J., Robbins, D. J. & Stewart, W. J. Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena. IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 47, 2075-2084 (1999).
19. Gorodetski, Y., Niv, A., Kleiner, V. & Hasman, E. Observation of the spin-based plasmonic effect in nanoscale structures. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043903 (2008).
20. Rogacheva, A. V., Fedotov, V. A., Schwanecke, A. S. & Zheludev, N. I. Giant gyrotropy due to electromagnetic-field coupling in a bilayered chiral structure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 177401 (2006).
21. Shalaev, V. M. et al. Negative index of refraction in optical metamaterials. Opt. Lett. 30, 3356-3358 (2005).
22. Linden, S. et al. Magnetic response of metamaterials at 100 terahertz. Science 306, 1351-1353 (2004).
23. Husnik, M. et al. Absolute extinction cross-section of individual magnetic split-ring resonators. Nature Photon. 2, 614-617 (2008).
24. Constantinescu, V. N. Laminar Viscous Flow (Springer, 1995).