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Nature Photonics 2, 333 - 334 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.88

Plasmonics: Finer optical tweezers

Peter J. Reece1

  1. Peter J. Reece is in the School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
    e-mail: p.reece@unsw.edu.au


The use of nanostructured gold substrates is now allowing optical tweezers to exploit plasmonics and confine nanoparticles to ever smaller dimensions.

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