Ensemble method to measure the potential energy of nanoparticles in an optical trap

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1497-1499

  Junio, Joseph ^a   Ng, Jack ^b   Cohen, Joel A ^c   Lin, Zhifang ^d   Ou Yang, H Daniel ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC OPTICS; ENSEMBLE METHODS; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; FORCE BALANCES; OPTICAL TRAP; SINGLE-PARTICLE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TRAPPING ENERGY; TRAPPING POTENTIAL;

NANOPARTICLES;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE;

NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE;

EID: 79956276109     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001497     Document Type: Article

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