Light-driven microdrones

Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond

(2021) Yuquan Zhang et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Microscopic metavehicles powered and steered by embedded optical metasurfaces

(2021) Daniel Andrén et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Optical Forces: From Fundamental to Biological Applications

(2020) Hongbao Xin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanoscale Inorganic Motors Driven by Light: Principles, Realizations, and Opportunities

(2019) Hana Šípová-Jungová et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Controlled Growth of High-Aspect-Ratio Single-Crystalline Gold Platelets

(2018) Enno Krauss et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

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

(2018) Ognjen Ilic et al.   NANO LETTERS

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: principles, practice, and applications to nanospectroscopic imaging of 2D materials

(2018) Feng Shao et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Light-driven micro-tool equipped with a syringe function

(2016) Mark Jayson Villangca et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Dynamic consequences of optical spin–orbit interaction

(2015) Sergey Sukhov et al.   Nature Photonics

Synthetic micro/nanomotors in drug delivery

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   Nanoscale

Plasmonic particles set into fast orbital motion by an optical vortex beam

(2014) Anni Lehmuskero et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Realization of optical pulling forces using chirality

(2014) Kun Ding et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Cavity optomechanics

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

Optical Vortex Induced Rotation of Silver Nanowires

(2013) Zijie Yan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Unidirectional Side Scattering of Light by a Single-Element Nanoantenna

(2013) Dries Vercruysse et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ultrafast Spinning of Gold Nanoparticles in Water Using Circularly Polarized Light

(2013) Anni Lehmuskero et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures

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

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

(2013) O. Brzobohatý et al.   Nature Photonics

Light sailboats: Laser driven autonomous microrobots

(2012) Anrdás Búzás et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

An optically actuated surface scanning probe

(2012) D. B. Phillips et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation

(2012) Paolo Biagioni et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Optical pulling force

(2011) Jun Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

Optical recoil of asymmetric nano-optical antenna

(2011) Jung-Hwan Song et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Light-driven nanoscale plasmonic motors

(2010) Ming Liu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Optically trapped probes with nanometer-scale tips for femto-Newton force measurement

(2010) M R Pollard et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Propulsion of Gold Nanoparticles with Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Evidence of Enhanced Optical Force from Near-Field Coupling between Gold Particle and Gold Film

(2009) Kai Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Alignment, Rotation, and Spinning of Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Nanowires Using Polarization Dependent Optical Forces

(2009) Lianming Tong et al.   NANO LETTERS