From the early optical-tweezers approach, which uses a single tightly focused laser beam to
levitate dielectric or absorbing micron-sized particles, to the recently developed optical traps …

Atmospheric particles experience various physical and chemical processes and change
their properties during their lifetime. Most studies on atmospheric particles, both in laboratory …

The ability to select, isolate, and manipulate micron-sized particles or small clusters has
made optical tweezers one of the emergent tools for modern biotechnology. In conventional …

The discovery of noble metal plasmonic nanoparticles (PNPs) has introduced surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) as a highly sensitive and specific bioanalytical …

Characterization, identification, and detection of aerosol particles in their native atmospheric
states remain a challenge. Recently, optical trapping-Raman spectroscopy (OT-RS) has …

We applied a time-resolved, optical trapping-Raman spectroscopy (OT-RS) technique to
characterize single, trapped bioaerosol particles under well-controlled reactive conditions …

Plasmonic nanoparticles are highly tunable light-harvesting materials with a wide array of
applications in photonics and catalysis. More recently, there has been interest in using …

Optical tweezers are an interesting tool to enable single cell analysis, especially when
coupled with optical sensing and advanced computational methods. Nevertheless, such …

Viable microbial aerosol detection remains a grand challenge. Here, we pioneered a new
system that integrates laser trapping and microwave irradiation for online discerning of …

The classification of the type of trapped particles is a crucial task for an efficient integration of
optical-tweezers in intelligent microfluidic devices. In the recent years, the use of the …