Fiber Optical Tweezers: When Light Loses Symmetry, It Can Hold Particles
Optical tweezers use light to immobilize microscopic particles as small as a single atom in 3D space. The basic principle behind optical tweezers is the…
Optical tweezers use light to immobilize microscopic particles as small as a single atom in 3D space. The basic principle behind optical tweezers is the…
Metalens-based design shrinks footprint, making optical traps practical for precision sensing and measurements. Researchers have created tiny chip-based optical tweezers that can be used to…
Three years ago, Arthur Ashkin won the Nobel Prize for inventing optical tweezers, which use light in the form of a high-powered laser beam to capture and…
A significant advance in optical tweezer technology, developed by researchers at the UTS Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices, will help boost biomedical research. Much…
Scientists have removed an important obstacle to the practical use of nanooptical traps. Nanooptical traps are a promising building block for quantum technologies. Austrian and…
A Remote Control for Everything Small Atoms, molecules or even living cells can be manipulated with light beams. At TU Wien a method was developed…
Modern construction is a precision endeavor. Builders must use components manufactured to meet specific standards — such as beams of a desired composition or rivets…
Now this is what I call fun science. This micron-sized game of Tetris was developed by students from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), who are…