Optical Tweezers Can Now Manipulate Matter on a Nanoscale

Plasmonics helps optical tweezers trap matter on the scale of tens of nanometers

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Optical Tweezers Can Now Manipulate Matter on a Nanoscale
The image on the left is an electron beam microscopy image of the extremity of the plasmon nano-tweezers. The image on the right is a sketch illustrating the trapping of a nanoparticle in the bowtie aperture.
Institute of Photonic Sciences