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Optical tweezers

Dressed for success

Controlled optical manipulation of a single dielectric nanoparticle is achieved with a bowtie nanoantenna placed at the end of the probe of a near-field scanning microscope.

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Figure 1: Reducing the size of an optical trap.
Figure 2: Schematic of the optical nanotweezers.

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Chaumet, P., Rahmani, A. Dressed for success. Nature Nanotech 9, 252–253 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.67

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