Nano-optical conveyor belt, part II: Demonstration of handoff between near-field optical traps

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2971-2976

  Zheng, Yuxin ^a   Ryan, Jason ^a   Hansen, Paul ^b   Cheng, Yao Te ^a   Lu, Tsung Ju ^c   Hesselink, Lambertus ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

C shaped engraving; conveyor belt; handoff; near field; optical tweezer; Plasmonic antenna

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; ETCHING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PLASMONS;

C-SHAPED; COLLOIDAL MATERIALS; CONVEYOR BELTS; HANDOFF; NEAR-FIELD; POLYSTYRENE SPHERES; POSITIONING ACCURACY; WAVELENGTH OF LIGHT;

BELT CONVEYORS;

EID: 84902255823     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl404045n     Document Type: Article

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