Optical forces are increasingly relevant in nanoscale optical science and engineering, but optical momentum in materials is still not fully understood. It is now shown that microstructure details as well as macroscopic optical parameters are important in determining optical momentum.
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Kemp, B. Momentum in metamaterials. Nature Photon 10, 291–293 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.81
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