Since their invention in 1986, optical tweezers have become indispensable tools for
contactless and non-invasive manipulation of micro and nano-objects. However, the …

Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

Conventional optical tweezers based on traditional optical microscopes are subject to the
diffraction limit, making the precise trapping and manipulation of very small particles …

Plasmonic optical tweezers can overcome the diffraction limits of conventional optical
tweezers and enable the trapping of nanoscale objects. Extension of the trapping and …

Optical tweezers are a very well-established technique that have developed into a standard
tool for trapping and manipulating micron and submicron particles with great success in the …

Conventional optical tweezers, formed at the diffraction-limited focus of a laser beam, have
become a powerful and flexible tool for manipulating micrometre-sized objects. Extending …

Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

An improved ability to manipulate nanoscale objects could spur the field of nanotechnology.
Optical tweezers offer the compelling advantage that manipulation is performed in a non …

With the capability of confining light into subwavelength scale, plasmonic tweezers have
been used to trap and manipulate nanoscale particles. It has huge potential to be utilized in …

We present a quantitative analysis of 2D surface plasmon based optical tweezers able to
trap microcolloids at a patterned metal surface under low laser intensity. Photonic force …