The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Maturation of robotics research and advances in the miniaturization of machines have
contributed to the development of microbots and enabled new technological possibilities …

There is great interest in the development of micromotors which can convert energy to
motion in sub-millimeter dimensions. Micromachines take the micromotor concept a step …

Microrobotics extends the reach of human-controlled machines to submillimeter dimensions.
We introduce a microrobot that relies on optoelectronic tweezers (OET) that is …

Steering micromotors is important for using them in practical applications and as model
systems for active matter. This functionality often requires magnetic materials in the …

Optical manipulation technology encompasses a suite of micromanipulation techniques that
employ light to control and actuate microscopic objects. As a valuable scientific tool, optical …

Micromanipulation techniques that are capable of assembling nano/micromaterials into
usable structures such as topographical micropatterns (TMPs) have proliferated rapidly in …

Optical micromanipulation has become popular for a wide range of applications. In this work,
a new type of optical micromanipulation platform, patterned optoelectronic tweezers (p …

With the rapid development of micro/nanofabrication technologies, the concept of
transformable kirigami has been applied for device fabrication in the microscopic world …

A scheme that combines optoelectronic tweezers (OET) with spectroscopic analysis is
presented. Referred to as spectral tweezers, the approach uses a single focused light beam …