Perspective on light-induced transport of particles: from optical forces to phoretic motion

Tunable soft-matter optofluidic waveguides assembled by light

(2019) Oto Brzobohatý et al.   ACS Photonics

Optical pulling at macroscopic distances

(2019) Xiao Li et al.   Science Advances

Size-Selective Optical Printing of Silicon Nanoparticles through Their Dipolar Magnetic Resonance

(2019) Cecilia Zaza et al.   ACS Photonics

Cavity Cooling of a Levitated Nanosphere by Coherent Scattering

(2019) Uroš Delić et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-stabilizing photonic levitation and propulsion of nanostructured macroscopic objects

(2019) Ognjen Ilic et al.   Nature Photonics

Wavelength-Dependent Optical Force Aggregation of Gold Nanorods for SERS in a Microfluidic Chip

(2019) Silvie Bernatová et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Optical Nanoprinting of Colloidal Particles and Functional Structures

(2019) Jingang Li et al.   ACS Nano

Analytical calculation of optical forces on spherical particles in optical tweezers: tutorial

(2019) Antonio Alvaro Ranha Neves et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

An optical tweezer phonon laser

(2019) Robert M. Pettit et al.   Nature Photonics

Optical tweezing using tunable optical lattices along a few-mode silicon waveguide

(2018) C. Pin et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Optical Manipulation along an Optical Axis with a Polarization Sensitive Meta-Lens

(2018) Hen Markovich et al.   NANO LETTERS

Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail

(2018) Harry A. Atwater et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Advances in optical metasurfaces: fabrication and applications [Invited]

(2018) Vin-Cent Su et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Long-range optical trapping and binding of microparticles in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre

(2018) Dmitry S. Bykov et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Particle Manipulation by Optical Forces in Microfluidic Devices

(2018) Petra Paiè et al.   Micromachines

Plasmonic Manipulation of Targeted Metallic Particles by Polarization-Sensitive Metalens

(2018) Xianyou Wang et al.   ACS Photonics

Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsion and Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails

(2018) Ognjen Ilic et al.   NANO LETTERS

Sensing Static Forces with Free-Falling Nanoparticles

(2018) Erik Hebestreit et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cu@TiO2 Janus microswimmers with a versatile motion mechanism

(2018) LinLin Wang et al.   Soft Matter

Optical and Thermophoretic Control of Janus Nanopen Injection into Living Cells

(2018) Christoph M. Maier et al.   NANO LETTERS

Multi-level sorting of nanoparticles on multi-step optical waveguide splitter

(2018) Xiaofu Xu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Novel method for manufacturing optical fiber: extrusion and drawing of microstructured polymer optical fibers from a 3D printer

(2018) Wanvisa Talataisong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Patterned Optoelectronic Tweezers: A New Scheme for Selecting, Moving, and Storing Dielectric Particles and Cells

(2018) Shuailong Zhang et al.   Small

Crossover from positive to negative optical torque in mesoscale optical matter

(2018) Fei Han et al.   Nature Communications

Transverse spin forces and non-equilibrium particle dynamics in a circularly polarized vacuum optical trap

(2018) V. Svak et al.   Nature Communications

Optomechanical Manipulation with Hyperbolic Metasurfaces

(2018) Aliaksandra Ivinskaya et al.   ACS Photonics

Near-field coupling of a levitated nanoparticle to a photonic crystal cavity

(2018) Lorenzo Magrini et al.   Optica

Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

(2017) Hao Zeng et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Holographic Plasmonic Nanotweezers for Dynamic Trapping and Manipulation

(2017) Preston R. Huft et al.   NANO LETTERS

Understanding and Reducing Photothermal Forces for the Fabrication of Au Nanoparticle Dimers by Optical Printing

(2017) Julian Gargiulo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Laser refrigeration, alignment and rotation of levitated Yb3+:YLF nanocrystals

(2017) A. T. M. Anishur Rahman et al.   Nature Photonics

Metamaterial-inspired silicon nanophotonics

(2017) Isabelle Staude et al.   Nature Photonics

Three-dimensional holographic optical manipulation through a high-numerical-aperture soft-glass multimode fibre

(2017) Ivo T. Leite et al.   Nature Photonics

Manufacturing with light - micro-assembly of opto-electronic microstructures

(2017) Shuailong Zhang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Matter-Wave Tractor Beams

(2017) Alexey A. Gorlach et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Omnidirectional Transport in Fully Reconfigurable Two Dimensional Optical Ratchets

(2017) Alejandro V. Arzola et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Non-conservative optical forces

(2017) Sergey Sukhov et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Colloidal heat engines: a review

(2017) Ignacio A. Martínez et al.   Soft Matter

Rich complex behaviour of self-assembled nanoparticles far from equilibrium

(2017) Serim Ilday et al.   Nature Communications

Enhancement of the ‘tractor-beam’ pulling force on an optically bound structure

(2017) Jana Damková et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Optical manipulation from the microscale to the nanoscale: fundamentals, advances and prospects

(2017) Dongliang Gao et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Full rotational control of levitated silicon nanorods

(2017) Stefan Kuhn et al.   Optica

Pulling cylindrical particles using a soft-nonparaxial tractor beam

(2017) Andrey Novitsky et al.   Scientific Reports

Optical Nanoparticle Sorting Elucidates Synthesis of Plasmonic Nanotriangles

(2016) María Ana Huergo et al.   ACS Nano

Optical trapping and control of nanoparticles inside evacuated hollow core photonic crystal fibers

(2016) David Grass et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Phototaxis of Oil Droplets Comprising a Caged Fatty Acid Tightly Linked to Internal Convection

(2016) Kentaro Suzuki et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Optical force exerted on a Rayleigh particle by a vector arbitrary-order Bessel beam

(2016) Ruiping Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

A review of digital microfluidics as portable platforms for lab-on a-chip applications

(2016) Ehsan Samiei et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Connecting Metallic Nanoparticles by Optical Printing

(2016) Julián Gargiulo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Bending Gold Nanorods with Light

(2016) Anastasia Babynina et al.   NANO LETTERS

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

(2016) Baohu Dai et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

All-dielectric metamaterials

(2016) Saman Jahani et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Rib waveguides for trapping and transport of particles

(2016) Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Evanescent field trapping of nanoparticles using nanostructured ultrathin optical fibers

(2016) Mark Daly et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nano-optical conveyor belt with waveguide-coupled excitation

(2016) Guanghui Wang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Direct Measurement of Photon Recoil from a Levitated Nanoparticle

(2016) Vijay Jain et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Torsional Optomechanics of a Levitated Nonspherical Nanoparticle

(2016) Thai M. Hoang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments

(2016) Clemens Bechinger et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Optically resonant dielectric nanostructures

(2016) Arseniy I. Kuznetsov et al.   SCIENCE

Precise, contactless measurements of the surface tension of picolitre aerosol droplets

(2016) Bryan R. Bzdek et al.   Chemical Science

Optical micromanipulation of nanoparticles and cells inside living zebrafish

(2016) Patrick Lie Johansen et al.   Nature Communications

Phototaxis of synthetic microswimmers in optical landscapes

(2016) Celia Lozano et al.   Nature Communications

Disorder-mediated crowd control in an active matter system

(2016) Erçağ Pinçe et al.   Nature Communications

Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale

(2016) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Cyanobacteria use micro-optics to sense light direction

(2016) Nils Schuergers et al.   eLife

Plasmon-assisted optical trapping and anti-trapping

(2016) Aliaksandra Ivinskaya et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Thermocapillarity in Microfluidics—A Review

(2016) Alireza Karbalaei et al.   Micromachines

Multipolar nonlinear nanophotonics

(2016) Daria Smirnova et al.   Optica

Active dynamics of colloidal particles in time-varying laser speckle patterns

(2016) Silvio Bianchi et al.   Scientific Reports

Light-driven transport of plasmonic nanoparticles on demand

(2016) José A. Rodrigo et al.   Scientific Reports

Nonlinear force dependence on optically bound micro-particle arrays in the evanescent fields of fundamental and higher order microfibre modes

(2016) Aili Maimaiti et al.   Scientific Reports

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High-Throughput Assessment of Cellular Mechanical Properties

(2015) Eric M. Darling et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Cooling and manipulation of a levitated nanoparticle with an optical fiber trap

(2015) Pau Mestres et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Size dependent efficiency of photophoretic swimmers

(2015) Andreas P. Bregulla et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Surface plasmon polariton assisted optical pulling force

(2015) Mihail I. Petrov et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Optical trapping and manipulation of micrometer and submicrometer particles

(2015) Mark Daly et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Single Molecules Trapped by Dynamic Inhomogeneous Temperature Fields

(2015) Marco Braun et al.   NANO LETTERS

Flying particle sensors in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre

(2015) D. S. Bykov et al.   Nature Photonics

Seeing through chaos in multimode fibres

(2015) Martin Plöschner et al.   Nature Photonics

Multi-dimensional single-spin nano-optomechanics with a levitated nanodiamond

(2015) Levi P. Neukirch et al.   Nature Photonics

Binding of a pair of Au nanoparticles in a wide Gaussian standing wave

(2015) Lukáš Chvátal et al.   OPTICAL REVIEW

Simultaneous measurements of electrophoretic and dielectrophoretic forces using optical tweezers

(2015) Giuseppe Pesce et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Plasmonic random nanostructures on fiber tip for trapping live cells and colloidal particles

(2015) Jiajie Chen et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Self-Diffusiophoresis of Janus Particles in Near-Critical Mixtures

(2015) Alois Würger   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-Propulsion Mechanism of Active Janus Particles in Near-Critical Binary Mixtures

(2015) Sela Samin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cavity Cooling a Single Charged Levitated Nanosphere

(2015) J. Millen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Accelerating nondiffracting beams

(2015) Shaohui Yan et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS A

Holographic Raman tweezers controlled by multi-modal natural user interface

(2015) Zoltán Tomori et al.   Journal of Optics

Micromotors with asymmetric shape that efficiently convert light into work by thermocapillary effects

(2015) Claudio Maggi et al.   Nature Communications

Controlling dispersion forces between small particles with artificially created random light fields

(2015) Georges Brügger et al.   Nature Communications

Light-induced crawling of crystals on a glass surface

(2015) Emi Uchida et al.   Nature Communications

Trapping and assembling of particles and live cells on large-scale random gold nano-island substrates

(2015) Zhiwen Kang et al.   Scientific Reports

Size dependent efficiency of photophoretic swimmers

(2015) Andreas P. Bregulla et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Parametric Force Analysis for Measurement of Arbitrary Optical Forces on Particles Trapped in Air or Vacuum

(2015) Haesung Park et al.   ACS Photonics

Interplay of Optical Force and Ray-Optic Behavior between Luneburg Lenses

(2015) Alireza Akbarzadeh et al.   ACS Photonics

An Optically Controlled Microscale Elevator Using Plasmonic Janus Particles

(2015) Spas Nedev et al.   ACS Photonics

Enhancement of optical forces using slow light in a photonic crystal waveguide

(2015) Mark G. Scullion et al.   Optica

Freestyle 3D laser traps: tools for studying light-driven particle dynamics and beyond

(2015) José A. Rodrigo et al.   Optica

Specially shaped Bessel-like self-accelerating beams along predesigned trajectories

(2015) Juanying Zhao et al.   Science Bulletin

Three-Dimensional Optical Trapping of a Plasmonic Nanoparticle using Low Numerical Aperture Optical Tweezers

(2015) Oto Brzobohatý et al.   Scientific Reports

Stochastic Localization of Microswimmers by Photon Nudging

(2014) Andreas P. Bregulla et al.   ACS Nano

Photoresponsive Soft-Robotic Platform: Biomimetic Fabrication and Remote Actuation

(2014) Weitao Jiang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photo-Chemopropulsion - Light-Stimulated Movement of Microdroplets

(2014) Larisa Florea et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An optical fiber optofluidic particle aspirator

(2014) Ganapathy S. Murugan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Self-propulsion on liquid surfaces

(2014) Véronique Pimienta et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Optical Printing of Electrodynamically Coupled Metallic Nanoparticle Arrays

(2014) Ying Bao et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Inhomogeneous and anisotropic particles in optical traps: Physical behaviour and applications

(2014) S.H. Simpson   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Unveiling the correlation between non-diffracting tractor beam and its singularity in Poynting vector

(2014) Dongliang Gao et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Optical Injection of Gold Nanoparticles into Living Cells

(2014) Miao Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical trapping and manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles: fundamentals, applications, and perspectives

(2014) Alexander S. Urban et al.   Nanoscale

Nanophotonic trapping for precise manipulation of biomolecular arrays

(2014) Mohammad Soltani et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Three-dimensional manipulation with scanning near-field optical nanotweezers

(2014) J. Berthelot et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam

(2014) Vladlen Shvedov et al.   Nature Photonics

Tracing optical force fields within graded-index media

(2014) Alireza Akbarzadeh et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Accelerating light beams with arbitrarily transverse shapes

(2014) Adrian Ruelas et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Speckle optical tweezers: micromanipulation with random light fields

(2014) Giorgio Volpe et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Universal, strong and long-ranged trapping by optical conveyors

(2014) David B. Ruffner et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Enhancing optofluidic actuation of micro-objects by tagging with plasmonic nanoparticles

(2014) Julien Burgin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical sorting of nonspherical and living microobjects in moving interference structures

(2014) Petr Jákl et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optoelectronic tweezers system for single cell manipulation and fluorescence imaging of live immune cells

(2014) Abigail H. Jeorrett et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Resonant optical gun

(2014) A. V. Maslov et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Light-activated self-propelled colloids

(2014) J. Palacci et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Trapping of single nano-objects in dynamic temperature fields

(2014) Marco Braun et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Pulling extremely anisotropic lossy particles using light without intensity gradient

(2014) Andrey Novitsky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Realization of optical pulling forces using chirality

(2014) Kun Ding et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Brownian particles on rough substrates: Relation between intermediate subdiffusion and asymptotic long-time diffusion

(2014) Richard D. L. Hanes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Resonant Pulling of a Microparticle Using a Backward Surface Wave

(2014) A. V. Maslov   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Probing the micro-rheological properties of aerosol particles using optical tweezers

(2014) Rory M Power et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Cavity optomechanics

(2014) Markus Aspelmeyer et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Loss-proof self-accelerating beams and their use in non-paraxial manipulation of particles’ trajectories

(2014) Ran Schley et al.   Nature Communications

Potential energy surfaces and reaction pathways for light-mediated self-organization of metal nanoparticle clusters

(2014) Zijie Yan et al.   Nature Communications

Laser printing of silicon nanoparticles with resonant optical electric and magnetic responses

(2014) Urs Zywietz et al.   Nature Communications

Brownian Motion in a Speckle Light Field: Tunable Anomalous Diffusion and Selective Optical Manipulation

(2014) Giorgio Volpe et al.   Scientific Reports

Engineering light-matter interaction for emerging optical manipulation applications

(2014) Cheng-Wei Qiu et al.   Nanophotonics

Optically Controlled Thermophoretic Trapping of Single Nano-Objects

(2013) Marco Braun et al.   ACS Nano

Colloids in light fields: Particle dynamics in random and periodic energy landscapes

(2013) F. Evers et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

OPTOMECHANICS OF LEVITATED DIELECTRIC PARTICLES

(2013) ZHANG-QI YIN et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B

Microfluidic integrated optoelectronic tweezers for single-cell preparation and analysis

(2013) Kuo-Wei Huang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Recent advancements in optofluidics-based single-cell analysis: optical on-chip cellular manipulation, treatment, and property detection

(2013) Nien-Tsu Huang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Gearing up for optical microrobotics: micromanipulation and actuation of synthetic microstructures by optical forces

(2013) Darwin Palima et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Advanced optical trapping by complex beam shaping

(2013) Mike Woerdemann et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Two-Color Laser Printing of Individual Gold Nanorods

(2013) Jaekwon Do et al.   NANO LETTERS

Sorting Nanoparticles with Intertwined Plasmonic and Thermo-Hydrodynamical Forces

(2013) A. Cuche et al.   NANO LETTERS

Actuators based on liquid crystalline elastomer materials

(2013) Hongrui Jiang et al.   Nanoscale

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures

(2013) Onofrio M. Maragò et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Linear momentum increase and negative optical forces at dielectric interface

(2013) Veerachart Kajorndejnukul et al.   Nature Photonics

Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a ‘tractor beam’

(2013) O. Brzobohatý et al.   Nature Photonics

Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres

(2013) D. J. Richardson et al.   Nature Photonics

Nondiffracting accelerating waves: Weber waves and parabolic momentum

(2013) Miguel A Bandres et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Three-dimensional accelerating electromagnetic waves

(2013) Miguel A. Bandres et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Dipole–dipole interaction in random electromagnetic fields

(2013) Sergey Sukhov et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical manipulation of aerosol droplets using a holographic dual and single beam trap

(2013) Oto Brzobohatý et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Arbitrary nonparaxial accelerating periodic beams and spherical shaping of light

(2013) A. Mathis et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Tailoring photonic forces on a magnetodielectric nanoparticle with a fluctuating optical source

(2013) Juan Miguel Auñón et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Dynamical and phase-diagram study on stable optical pulling force in Bessel beams

(2013) Neng Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Plane waves as tractor beams

(2013) Péter Forgács et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Dynamical analysis of an optical rocking ratchet: Theory and experiment

(2013) Alejandro V. Arzola et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Particle dynamics in two-dimensional random-energy landscapes: Experiments and simulations

(2013) Florian Evers et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Effective heating to several thousand kelvins of an optically trapped sphere in a liquid

(2013) Ignacio A. Martínez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Attractive Optical Forces from Blackbody Radiation

(2013) M. Sonnleitner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Light Control of the Flow of Phototactic Microswimmer Suspensions

(2013) Xabel Garcia et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Observation of Backaction and Self-Induced Trapping in a Planar Hollow Photonic Crystal Cavity

(2013) Nicolas Descharmes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cavity cooling of an optically levitated submicron particle

(2013) N. Kiesel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optical trapping and binding

(2013) Richard W Bowman et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Invited Article: A review of haptic optical tweezers for an interactive microworld exploration

(2013) Cécile Pacoret et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

(2013) J. Palacci et al.   SCIENCE

Weak adhesion at the mesoscale: particles at an interface

(2013) Deepak Kumar et al.   Soft Matter

Kinect 4 … holographic optical tweezers

(2013) C Muhiddin et al.   Journal of Optics

Kinect the dots: 3D control of optical tweezers

(2013) Lucy Shaw et al.   Journal of Optics

HoloHands: games console interface for controlling holographic optical manipulation

(2013) C McDonald et al.   Journal of Optics

Harnessing thermal fluctuations for purposeful activities: the manipulation of single micro-swimmers by adaptive photon nudging

(2013) Bian Qian et al.   Chemical Science

Shrink-to-fit Plasmonic Nanostructures

(2013) A. S. Urban et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

A nanofiber-based optical conveyor belt for cold atoms

(2012) Philipp Schneeweiss et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Speed enhancement of multi-particle chain in a traveling standing wave

(2012) Martin Šiler et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Polarization-sensitive photophoresis

(2012) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Holographic optical bottle beams

(2012) Christina Alpmann et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Light sailboats: Laser driven autonomous microrobots

(2012) Anrdás Búzás et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Active Brownian motion tunable by light

(2012) Ivo Buttinoni et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Optical alignment and confinement of an ellipsoidal nanorod in optical tweezers: a theoretical study

(2012) Jan Trojek et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

Photo-actuation of liquids for light-driven microfluidics: state of the art and perspectives

(2012) Damien Baigl   LAB ON A CHIP

Digital microfluidics: a versatile tool for applications in chemistry, biology and medicine

(2012) Mais J. Jebrail et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Optically-actuated translational and rotational motion at the microscale for microfluidic manipulation and characterization

(2012) Samarendra Mohanty   LAB ON A CHIP

Surface transport and stable trapping of particles and cells by an optical waveguide loop

(2012) Olav Gaute Hellesø et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Ultrastrong Optical Binding of Metallic Nanoparticles

(2012) Vassili Demergis et al.   NANO LETTERS

Manipulation of gold nanorods with dual-optical tweezers for surface plasmon resonance control

(2012) Lin Ling et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Force probing of individual molecules inside the living cell is now a reality

(2012) Lene B Oddershede   Nature Chemical Biology

Superdiffusion in optically controlled active media

(2012) Kyle M. Douglass et al.   Nature Photonics

Optically induced 'negative forces'

(2012) Aristide Dogariu et al.   Nature Photonics

Lasing in optically manipulated, dye-doped emulsion microdroplets

(2012) M. Aas et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

High quality quasi-Bessel beam generated by round-tip axicon

(2012) Oto Brzobohatý et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Light spin forces in optical traps: comment on “Trapping metallic Rayleigh particles with radial polarization”

(2012) Ignacio Iglesias et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical forces induced behavior of a particle in a non-diffracting vortex beam

(2012) Martin Šiler et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical manipulation of particle ensembles in air

(2012) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Electric and magnetic optical response of dielectric nanospheres: Optical forces and scattering anisotropy

(2012) R. Gómez-Medina et al.   Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications

Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams

(2012) David B. Ruffner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Reconfigurable Optothermal Microparticle Trap in Air-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

(2012) O. A. Schmidt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Material-Independent and Size-Independent Tractor Beams for Dipole Objects

(2012) Andrey Novitsky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Proposed Nonlinear Resonance Laser Technique for Manipulating Nanoparticles

(2012) Tetsuhiro Kudo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Subkelvin Parametric Feedback Cooling of a Laser-Trapped Nanoparticle

(2012) Jan Gieseler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber Accelerating Beams

(2012) Peng Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nondiffracting Accelerating Wave Packets of Maxwell’s Equations

(2012) Ido Kaminer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Strange kinetics of single molecules in living cells

(2012) Eli Barkai et al.   PHYSICS TODAY

A compact holographic optical tweezers instrument

(2012) G. M. Gibson et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Colloids in one dimensional random energy landscapes

(2012) Richard D. L. Hanes et al.   Soft Matter

Effect of polarization on transport of particles in air by optical vortex beam

(2012) N O Eckerskorn et al.   Journal of Optics

Exploiting multimode waveguides for pure fibre-based imaging

(2012) Tomáš Čižmár et al.   Nature Communications

Plasmon-Assisted Optofluidics

(2011) Jon S. Donner et al.   ACS Nano

Flight status of IKAROS deep space solar sail demonstrator

(2011) Y. Tsuda et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

Toward Label-Free Optical Fractionation of Blood—Optical Force Measurements of Blood Cells

(2011) Colin G. Hebert et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Picoliter Rheology of Gaseous Media Using a Rotating Optically Trapped Birefringent Microparticle

(2011) Yoshihiko Arita et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Light-Controlled Propulsion of Catalytic Microengines

(2011) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dynamic size tuning of multidimensional optically bound matter

(2011) O. Brzobohatý et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Hybrid opto-electric manipulation in microfluidics—opportunities and challenges

(2011) Aloke Kumar et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Nanomanipulation using near field photonics

(2011) David Erickson et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Holographic optical tweezers and their relevance to lab on chip devices

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A multi-mode fiber probe for holographic micromanipulation and microscopy

(2011) Silvio Bianchi et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Aqueous droplet manipulation by optically induced Marangoni circulation

(2011) Wenqi Hu et al.   Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Plasmon-Driven Selective Deposition of Au Bipyramidal Nanoparticles

(2011) Mason J. Guffey et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical Force Stamping Lithography

(2011) Spas Nedev et al.   NANO LETTERS

Laser tractor beams

(2011) Juan José Sáenz   Nature Photonics

Optical pulling force

(2011) Jun Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

Optoelectronic tweezers

(2011) Ming C Wu   Nature Photonics

Optical tweezers study life under tension

(2011) Furqan M Fazal et al.   Nature Photonics

Plasmon nano-optical tweezers

(2011) Mathieu L Juan et al.   Nature Photonics

Shaping the future of manipulation

(2011) K Dholakia et al.   Nature Photonics

Tweezers with a twist

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   Nature Photonics

Millikelvin cooling of an optically trapped microsphere in vacuum

(2011) Tongcang Li et al.   Nature Physics

Massive photothermal trapping and migration of particles by a tapered optical fiber

(2011) Hongbao Xin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Shaping the light transmission through a multimode optical fibre: complex transformation analysis and applications in biophotonics

(2011) Tomáš Čižmár et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Laser-induced thermophoresis of individual particles in a viscous liquid

(2011) Ross T. Schermer et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical twists in phase and amplitude

(2011) Vincent R. Daria et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Robust trapping and manipulation of airborne particles with a bottle beam

(2011) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Trapping and guiding microparticles with morphing autofocusing Airy beams

(2011) Peng Zhang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Trapping and transporting aerosols with a single optical bottle beam generated by moiré techniques

(2011) Peng Zhang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Magnus force effect in optical manipulation

(2011) Gabriella Cipparrone et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Optically levitating dielectrics in the quantum regime: Theory and protocols

(2011) O. Romero-Isart et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Single Gradientless Light Beam Drags Particles as Tractor Beams

(2011) Andrey Novitsky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Negative Nonconservative Forces: Optical “Tractor Beams” for Arbitrary Objects

(2011) S. Sukhov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Experimental Control of Transport and Current Reversals in a Deterministic Optical Rocking Ratchet

(2011) Alejandro V. Arzola et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Microswimmers in patterned environments

(2011) Giovanni Volpe et al.   Soft Matter

iTweezers: optical micromanipulation controlled by an Apple iPad

(2011) R W Bowman et al.   Journal of Optics

Optical macro-tweezers: trapping of highly motile micro-organisms

(2011) G Thalhammer et al.   Journal of Optics

Combined acoustic and optical trapping

(2011) G. Thalhammer et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications

(2011) Alison M. Yao et al.   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Nano-optofluidic Detection of Single Viruses and Nanoparticles

(2010) Anirban Mitra et al.   ACS Nano

Light-Driven Titanium-Dioxide-Based Reversible Microfireworks and Micromotor/Micropump Systems

(2010) Yiying Hong et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Analytical particle measurements in an optical microflume

(2010) Joseph D. Taylor et al.   ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA

Complex Fluids: Probing Mechanical Properties of Biological Systems with Optical Tweezers

(2010) H. Daniel Ou-Yang et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Optical tweezers for the micromanipulation of plant cytoplasm and organelles

(2010) Chris Hawes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

A microfluidic platform for manipulation and separation of oil-in-water emulsion droplets using optically induced dielectrophoresis

(2010) Shih-Hsun Hung et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Experimental generation and dynamical reconfiguration of different circular optical lattices for applications in atom trapping

(2010) I. Ricardez-Vargas et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Optoelectrofluidic platforms for chemistry and biology

(2010) Hyundoo Hwang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Light-Induced Local Heating for Thermophoretic Manipulation of DNA in Polymer Micro- and Nanochannels

(2010) Lasse H. Thamdrup et al.   NANO LETTERS

Laser Printing Single Gold Nanoparticles

(2010) Alexander S. Urban et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical Manipulation with Planar Silicon Microring Resonators

(2010) Shiyun Lin et al.   NANO LETTERS

All-Optical Patterning of Au Nanoparticles on Surfaces Using Optical Traps

(2010) Mason J. Guffey et al.   NANO LETTERS

In situ wavefront correction and its application to micromanipulation

(2010) Tomáš Čižmár et al.   Nature Photonics

Flow-assisted Single-beam Optothermal Manipulation of Microparticles

(2010) Yangyang Liu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical path clearing and enhanced transmission through colloidal suspensions

(2010) J. Baumgartl et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical chromatography using a photonic crystal fiber with on-chip fluorescence excitation

(2010) P. C. Ashok et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical forces on small magnetodielectric particle

(2010) M. Nieto-Vesperinas et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical trapping and propulsion of red blood cells on waveguide surfaces

(2010) Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical solenoid beams

(2010) Sang-Hyuk Lee et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Selective trapping of multiple particles by volume speckle field

(2010) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Negative radiation pressure on gain medium structures

(2010) Amit Mizrahi et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

On the concept of “tractor beams”

(2010) S. Sukhov et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Giant Optical Manipulation

(2010) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Active Motion of a Janus Particle by Self-Thermophoresis in a Defocused Laser Beam

(2010) Hong-Ren Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding

(2010) Kishan Dholakia et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

(2010) W. J. Borucki et al.   SCIENCE

In pursuit of propulsion at the nanoscale

(2010) Stephen J. Ebbens et al.   Soft Matter

Laser speckle field as a multiple particle trap

(2010) V G Shvedov et al.   Journal of Optics

Realization of curved Bessel beams: propagation around obstructions

(2010) J E Morris et al.   Journal of Optics

Optical fibre nanowires and microwires: a review

(2010) G Brambilla   Journal of Optics

Schooling Behavior of Light-Powered Autonomous Micromotors in Water

(2009) Michael Ibele et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photomanipulation of a Droplet by the Chromocapillary Effect

(2009) Antoine Diguet et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Parallel trapping of multiwalled carbon nanotubes with optoelectronic tweezers

(2009) Peter J. Pauzauskie et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Cascade optical chromatography for sample fractionation

(2009) Alex Terray et al.   Biomicrofluidics

Light at work: The use of optical forces for particle manipulation, sorting, and analysis

(2009) Alexandr Jonáš et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

Optical manipulation for single-cell studies

(2009) Kerstin Ramser et al.   Journal of Biophotonics

Holographic twin traps

(2009) S Zwick et al.  

Laser microfluidics: fluid actuation by light

(2009) Jean-Pierre Delville et al.  

Negative axial radiation force on a fluid and elastic spheres illuminated by a high-order Bessel beam of progressive waves

(2009) F G Mitri   Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical

Photophoresis—Light induced motion of particles suspended in gas

(2009) Olga Jovanovic   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Microrheology with optical tweezers

(2009) Alison Yao et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Optical redistribution of microparticles and cells between microwells

(2009) Jörg Baumgartl et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Phototransistor-based optoelectronic tweezers for dynamic cell manipulation in cell culture media

(2009) Hsan-yin Hsu et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Laser-Induced Force on a Microfluidic Drop: Origin and Magnitude

(2009) Emilie Verneuil et al.   LANGMUIR

Colloidal Attraction Induced by a Temperature Gradient

(2009) R. Di Leonardo et al.   LANGMUIR

An Optical Conveyor for Molecules

(2009) Franz M. Weinert et al.   NANO LETTERS

Forces and Transport Velocities for a Particle in a Slot Waveguide

(2009) Allen H. J. Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical manipulation of nanoparticles and biomolecules in sub-wavelength slot waveguides

(2009) Allen H. J. Yang et al.   NATURE

Tunable Bessel light modes: engineering the axial propagation

(2009) Tomáš Čižmár et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Hands-on with optical tweezers: a multitouch interface for holographic optical trapping

(2009) J. A. Grieve et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Photophoretic manipulation of absorbing aerosol particles with vortex beams: theory versus experiment

(2009) Anton S. Desyatnikov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical guiding of absorbing nanoclusters in air

(2009) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Touching the microworld with force-feedback optical tweezers

(2009) Cécile Pacoret et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Propagation characteristics of Airy beams: dependence upon spatial coherence and wavelength

(2009) J. E. Morris et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Electromagnetic force and torque on magnetic and negative-index scatterers

(2009) Patrick C. Chaumet et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Spiraling zero-order Bessel beam

(2009) Vygandas Jarutis et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Scattering Forces from the Curl of the Spin Angular Momentum of a Light Field

(2009) Silvia Albaladejo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Manipulation of Colloids by a Nonequilibrium Depletion Force in a Temperature Gradient

(2009) Hong-Ren Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale

(2009) Peter Hänggi et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Optical fiber nanowires and microwires: fabrication and applications

(2009) Gilberto Brambilla et al.   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Recent Advances in Optical Tweezers

(2008) Jeffrey R. Moffitt et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Thermocapillary manipulation of droplets using holographic beam shaping: Microfluidic pin ball

(2008) Maria Luisa Cordero et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

A dual beam photonic crystal fiber trap for microscopic particles

(2008) David M. Gherardi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Static optical sorting in a laser interference field

(2008) Petr Jákl et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Localized surface plasmon assisted microfluidic mixing

(2008) Xiaoyu Miao et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Laser switching and sorting for high speed digital microfluidics

(2008) Matthieu Robert de Saint Vincent et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Three-Dimensional Micro- and Nano-Structuring of Materials by Tightly Focused Laser Radiation

(2008) Saulius Juodkazis et al.   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Optical manipulation and characterisation of aerosol particles using a single-beam gradient force optical trap

(2008) Laura Mitchem et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Operational Regimes and Physics Present in Optoelectronic Tweezers

(2008) Justin K. Valley et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Optical manipulation of nanoparticles: a review

(2008) Maria Dienerowitz   Journal of Nanophotonics

Thermophoresis in colloidal suspensions

(2008) R Piazza et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Optical tweezers for single cells

(2008) H. Zhang et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Surface-plasmon-based optical manipulation

(2008) R. Quidant et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Optical traps for single molecule biophysics: a primer

(2008) T.T. Perkins   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton

(2008) Gáspár Jékely et al.   NATURE

Single-molecule force spectroscopy: optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers and atomic force microscopy

(2008) Keir C Neuman et al.   NATURE METHODS

Dynamic manipulation and separation of individual semiconducting and metallic nanowires

(2008) Arash Jamshidi et al.   Nature Photonics

Nanometric optical tweezers based on nanostructured substrates

(2008) A. N. Grigorenko et al.   Nature Photonics

Optically mediated particle clearing using Airy wavepackets

(2008) Jörg Baumgartl et al.   Nature Photonics

Surface delivery of a single nanoparticle under moving evanescent standing-wave illumination

(2008) Martin Šiler et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Full phase and amplitude control of holographic optical tweezers with high efficiency

(2008) Alexander Jesacher et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Generation of multiple Bessel beams for a biophotonics workstation

(2008) T. Čižmár et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Precision steering of an optical trap by electro-optic deflection

(2008) Megan T. Valentine et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Ballistic dynamics of Airy beams

(2008) G. A. Siviloglou et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical Forces Arising from Phase Gradients

(2008) Yohai Roichman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Long-Range One-Dimensional Longitudinal Optical Binding

(2008) V. Karásek et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Surface Plasmon Optical Tweezers: Tunable Optical Manipulation in the Femtonewton Range

(2008) Maurizio Righini et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A basic swimmer at low Reynolds number

(2008) Marco Leoni et al.   Soft Matter

Optical micromanipulation

(2007) Kishan Dholakia et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS