Shaping the future of manipulation

K Dholakia, T Čižmár - Nature photonics, 2011 - nature.com
Optical forces can be used to manipulate biological and colloidal material in a non-contact
manner. This forms the foundation of a wealth of exciting science, particularly in the fields of …

Recent advances in magnetic tweezers

I De Vlaminck, C Dekker - Annual review of biophysics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Since their first demonstration of manipulation and mechanical coiling of a single DNA
molecule, magnetic tweezers have become a popular and widely used single-molecule …

[PDF][PDF] A review of liquid crystal spatial light modulators: devices and applications

Y Yang, A Forbes, L Cao - Opto-Electronic Science, 2023 - researching.cn
Spatial light modulators, as dynamic flat-panel optical devices, have witnessed rapid
development over the past two decades, concomitant with the advancements in micro-and …

Highly sensitive force measurements in an optically generated, harmonic hydrodynamic trap

ID Stoev, B Seelbinder, E Erben, N Maghelli… - ELight, 2021 - Springer
The use of optical tweezers to measure forces acting upon microscopic particles has
revolutionised fields from material science to cell biology. However, despite optical control …

Indirect optical trapping using light driven micro-rotors for reconfigurable hydrodynamic manipulation

UG Būtaitė, GM Gibson, YLD Ho, M Taverne… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical tweezers are a highly versatile tool for exploration of the mesoscopic world,
permitting non-contact manipulation of nanoscale objects. However, direct illumination with …

Microrheological characterization of collagen systems: from molecular solutions to fibrillar gels

M Shayegan, NR Forde - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the extracellular matrix (ECM), where its structural
organization conveys mechanical information to cells. Using optical-tweezers-based …

[HTML][HTML] An optimized software framework for real-time, high-throughput tracking of spherical beads

JP Cnossen, D Dulin, NH Dekker - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Numerous biophysical techniques such as magnetic tweezers, flow stretching assays, or
tethered particle motion assays rely on the tracking of spherical beads to obtain quantitative …

Comparative study of methods to calibrate the stiffness of a single-beam gradient-force optical tweezers over various laser trapping powers

M Sarshar, WT Wong, B Anvari - Journal of biomedical optics, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical tweezers have become an important instrument in force measurements associated
with various physical, biological, and biophysical phenomena. Quantitative use of optical …

The applications and technology of phase-only liquid crystal on silicon devices

N Collings, T Davey, J Christmas, D Chu… - Journal of Display …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
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112 JOURNAL OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 7, NO. 3, MARCH 2011 The Applications …

Line optical tweezers as controllable micromachines: techniques and emerging trends

Y Shen, DA Weitz, NR Forde, M Shayegan - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the past three decades, the technology of optical tweezers has made significant
contributions in various scientific areas, including optics, photonics, and nanosciences …