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Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding

SYSNO ASEP	0350855
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding
Author(s)	Dholakia, K. (GB) Zemánek, Pavel (UPT-D)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	2
Source Title	Reviews of Modern Physics. - : American Physical Society - ISSN 0034-6861 Roč. 82, č. 2 (2010), s. 1767-1791
Number of pages	25 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	US - United States
Keywords	discrete-dipole approximation ; artificial kerr medium ; focused laser-beam ; near-field optics ; radiation pressure ; electromagnetic force ; trapping force ; nonlinear nanosuspensions ; spherical nanoparticles ; metal nanoparticles
Subject RIV	BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers
R&D Projects	GA202/09/0348 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
	LC06007 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
CEZ	AV0Z20650511 - UPT-D (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000278478500002
EID SCOPUS	77953268200
DOI	10.1103/RevModPhys.82.1767
Annotation	The light-matter interaction has been at the heart of major advances from the atomic scale right to the microscopic scale over the past four decades. Confinement by light, embodied by the area of optical trapping, has had a major influence across all of the natural sciences. However, an emergent and powerful topic within this field that has steadily merged but not gained much recognition is optical binding: the importance of exploring the optically mediated interaction between assembled objects that can cause attractive and repulsive forces and dramatically influence the way they assemble and organize themselves. This offers routes for colloidal self-assembly, crystallization, and organization of templates for biological and colloidal sciences. In this Colloquium, this emergent area is reviewed looking at the pioneering experiments in the field and the various theoretical approaches that aim to describe this behavior.
Workplace	Institute of Scientific Instruments
Contact	Martina Šillerová, sillerova@ISIBrno.Cz, Tel.: 541 514 178
Year of Publishing	2011

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