Since the invention of optical tweezers, optical manipulation has advanced significantly in
scientific areas such as atomic physics, optics and biological science. Especially in the past …

Acoustic metamaterial science is an emerging field at the frontier of modern acoustics. It
provides a prominent platform for acoustic wave control in subwavelength-sized …

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

A switchable metamaterial with bifunctionality of absorption and electromagnetically induced
transparency is proposed based on the phase-transition characteristic of phase change …

The identification and separation of substances by chirality has always been an important
problem in biomedical research and industry. Light beams carry optical momentum, and can …

Capacitive coupling and direct shuttling of charges in nanoscale plasmonic components
across a dielectric spacer and through a conductive junction lead to excitation of significantly …

Chiral gradient force allows a passive separation of an enantiomer since its direction is
dependent on the handedness of its chiral entities. However, chiral polarisability is much …

We demonstrate tunable pulling and pushing optical forces on plasmonic nanostructures at
plasmon singularity and Fano resonance. The plasmonic nanostructure containing a …

Optical evanescent wave in total internal reflection has been widely used in efficient optical
manipulation, where the object is trapped by the intrinsic intensity gradient of the evanescent …

We theoretically and numerically demonstrate that Fano-like resonance can induce a left-
handed optical torque on a dipolar plasmonic core-shell nanoparticle in the interference …