Origin and Future of Plasmonic Optical Tweezers

Nanomaterials

Jer-Shing Huang²  Ya-Tang Yang¹ 

[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan;Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan; E-Mail:

关键词: optical tweezers;    optical trapping;    plasmonics;    Brownian motion;    nanomanipulation;    surface plasmon;    nanoplasmonics;    near-field optics;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nano5021048

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Plasmonic optical tweezers can overcome the diffraction limits of conventional optical tweezers and enable the trapping of nanoscale objects. Extension of the trapping and manipulation of nanoscale objects with nanometer position precision opens up unprecedented opportunities for applications in the fields of biology, chemistry and statistical and atomic physics. Potential applications include direct molecular manipulation, lab-on-a-chip applications for viruses and vesicles and the study of nanoscale transport. This paper reviews the recent research progress and development bottlenecks and provides an overview of possible future directions in this field.

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