Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

The advent of graphene and other two-dimensional van der Waals materials, with their
unique electrical, optical, and thermal properties has resulted in tremendous progress for …

Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

Nanorobotic motion on solid substrates is greatly hindered by strong nanofriction, and
powerful nanomotors‒the core components for nanorobotic motion‒are still lacking. Optical …

Optical and acoustic tweezers, despite operating on different physical principles, offer non-
contact manipulation of microscopic and mesoscopic objects, making them essential in …

Light carries energy and momentum, laying the physical foundation of optical manipulation
that has facilitated advances in myriad scientific disciplines, ranging from biochemistry and …

Achieving optically controlled nanomachine engineering can satisfy the touch-free and non-
invasive demands of optoelectronics, nanotechnology, and biology. Traditional optical …

Circularly polarized light carries spin angular momentum, so it can exert an optical torque on
the polarization-anisotropic particle by the spin momentum transfer. Here, we show that …

Spin-orbit interactions in evanescent fields have recently attracted significant interest. In
particular, the transfer of the Belinfante spin momentum perpendicular to the propagation …

Many light-based technologies have been developed to manipulate micro/nanoscale
objects such as colloidal particles and biological cells for basic research and practical …