<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools
employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical …

The paper analyzes losses during the development of low-value water-soluble ore deposits.
The importance of development systems with backfill is shown. The use of industrial wastes …

The study of electromagnetic scattering in optics and nanophotonics is crucial for
understanding complex nanostructures and optical devices. However, numerical analysis of …

Dielectric singularities (DSs) constitute one of the most exotic features occurring in the
effective permittivity of artificial multilayers called hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) …

Plasmonic tweezers based on periodic nanostructures have been used to manipulate
particles through multiple and uniform local surface plasmon (LSP) fields. However, the …

Optical binding of metal nanoparticles (NPs) provides a promising way to create tunable
photonic materials and devices, where the ultrastrong interparticle interaction is generally …

Focused laser beams allow controlling the mechanical motion of objects and can serve as a
tool for assembling micro and nanostructures in space. While small particles mainly …

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) with extreme dielectric anisotropy have shown great
promise in nanophotonic applications such as superlensing, enhancement of spontaneous …

This work studies the optical binding of a dimer composed by dielectric particles close to a
graphene sheet. Using a rigorous electromagnetic method, we calculated the optical force …