The properties of gold nanospheres studied with dark field optical trapping

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6618-6624

  Ling, Lin ^a   Huang, Lu ^a   Fu, Jinxin ^b   Guo, Honglian ^a   Li, Jiafang ^a   Ou Yang, H Daniel ^b   Li, Zhi Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

DARK FIELD; DARK FIELD IMAGING; DARK-FIELD SCATTERINGS; GOLD NANOSPHERES; INTER-PARTICLE COUPLING; OPTICALTRAPPING; SCATTERING INTENSITY; TRAPPING POTENTIAL;

NANOSPHERES;

EID: 84875148001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006618     Document Type: Article

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