Lateral optical force on chiral particles near a surface

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, S B ^a   Chan, C T ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SUBSTRATE; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; FORCE; LIGHT; OPTICAL FORCE; PHOTON; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84896797604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4307     Document Type: Article

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