Solar sails, optical tweezers, and other light-driven machines

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8122, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CELLS; LINEAR MOMENTA; MATERIAL MEDIA; MICROBEADS; NANOMACHINES; RADIATION FORCES; SMALL OBJECTS; SOLAR SAILS; WIDE-RANGING APPLICATIONS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 80053300016     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.903613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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