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Light Robotics-Structure-Mediated Nanobiophotonics
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SYSNO ASEP 0506845 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Optomechanical microtools and shape-induced forces Author(s) Gluckstad, J. (GB)
Simpson, Stephen Hugh (UPT-D) RID, SAI
Hanna, S. (GB)Number of authors 3 Source Title Light Robotics-Structure-Mediated Nanobiophotonics, Elements of light robotics. - Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2017 / Gluckstad Jesper ; Palima Darwin - ISBN 978-0-7020-7096-9 Pages s. 65-98 Number of pages 34 s. Number of pages 482 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords optical forces ; optomechanical microtools ; shape-induced forces ; surface imaging Subject RIV BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers OECD category Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics) Institutional support UPT-D - RVO:68081731 UT WOS 000450764200005 EID SCOPUS 85051634583 DOI 10.1016/B978-0-7020-7096-9.00003-3 Annotation The vast majority of experiments with optical tweezers have employed microspheres to act as force transducers, image surfaces and extract a wealth of additional information about their local microscale environment. Microspheres are easy to track and readily available in a variety of sizes and materials. In particular, force transduction using optically trapped microspheres has enjoyed great success: the application and measurement of picoNewton scale forces has uncovered an abundance of micromechanical detail of the operation of biological molecular motors. However, increasing the complexity of a microprobe's shape opens up a range of new experiments previously inaccessible with the use of microspheres alone. This chapter details some of the work investigating the deployment of optomechanical microtools: free-floating nonspherical microscale structures that can be controllably manipulated and brought to life using optical forces, while their motion is tracked in exquisite detail to make a range of new types of quantitative measurements on their surroundings. The first part of the chapter details the underpinning theory describing how complex shapes behave in optical fields. The second part describes experimental implementations of optomechanical micro tools: their fabrication, 3D tracking, and control. Workplace Institute of Scientific Instruments Contact Martina Šillerová, sillerova@ISIBrno.Cz, Tel.: 541 514 178 Year of Publishing 2020
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