This study addresses the challenge of trapping nanoscale biological particles using optical
tweezers without the photothermal heating effect and the limitation presented by the …

Optical tweezers have emerged as a powerful tool for the non-invasive trapping and
manipulation of colloidal particles and biological cells,. However, the diffraction limit …

Optical tweezers have had a major impact on bioscience research by enabling the study of
biological particles with high accuracy. The focus so far has been on trapping individual …

Optical trapping has revolutionized our understanding of biology by manipulating cells and
single molecules using optical forces. Moving to the near-field creates intense field gradients …

We present a noninvasive platform that combines the near-field optical gradient force from a
nonradiating anapole nanoantenna with a diffusiophoretic force to achieve nanoscale …

Optical trapping using focused laser beams has emerged as a powerful tool in the biological
and physical sciences. However, scaling this technique to nanosized objects remains …

Plasmonic nanostructures overcome Abbe's diffraction limit to create strong gradient electric
fields, enabling efficient optical trapping of nanoparticles. However, it remains challenging to …

We present optical trapping with a 10 nm gap resonant coaxial nanoaperture in a gold film.
Large arrays of 600 resonant plasmonic coaxial nanoaperture traps are produced on a …

Near-field optics can overcome the diffraction limit by creating strong optical gradients to
enable the trapping of nanoparticles. However, it remains challenging to achieve efficient …

Optical tweezers are powerful tools to trap, transport, and analyse individual nano-objects at
dilute concentrations. However, it is still challenging to manipulate isolated single nano …