Optically induced 'negative forces'

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-27

  Dogariu, Aristide ^a   Sukhov, Sergey ^a   Sáenz, José ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Universidad Autónoma de Madrid   (Spain)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEGATIVE FORCES; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICALLY INDUCED; RECENT PROGRESS; SMALL OBJECTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84871984558     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.315     Document Type: Article

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