Angular and position stability of a nanorod trapped in an optical tweezers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26388-26398

  Bareil, Paul B ^a   Sheng, Yunlong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); NANORODS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; STIFFNESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

BROWNIAN MOTION; CYLINDER SURFACE; LATERAL SHIFTS; LOW ASPECT RATIO; OPTICALTRAPPING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POSITION STABILITY; RADIATION STRESS; SPIN TORQUE; T-MATRIX; TRAP STIFFNESS; TRAPPING BEAM; TRAPPING FORCES;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ROTATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; ROTATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 78650065340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026388     Document Type: Article

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