Metamaterials, as artificially structured materials composed of subwavelength arrays of
resonant unit cells, can exhibit exotic properties beyond those accessible to natural …

Metamaterials, artificial electromagnetic media that are structured on the subwavelength
scale, were initially suggested for the negative-index'superlens'. Later metamaterials …

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

The changing balance of forces at the nanoscale offers the opportunity to develop a new
generation of spatially reconfigurable nanomembrane metamaterials in which …

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

The study of advanced artificial electromagnetic materials, known as metamaterials,
provides a link from material science to theoretical and applied electrodynamics, as well as …

The ability to manipulate small particles of matter using the forces of light, optical trapping,
forms the basis of a number of exciting research areas, spanning fundamental physics …

Metamaterial nanostructures actuated by light give rise to a large optical nonlinearity.
Plasmonic metamolecules on a flexible support structure cut from a dielectric membrane of …

We demonstrate how the optical gradient force between two waveguides can be enhanced
using transformation optics. A thin layer of double-negative or single-negative metamaterial …

We introduce a dielectric photonic metamaterial presenting a giant nonlinear optical
response driven by resonant optomechanical forces. Being inherently free of Joule losses, it …