Wednesday, November 14, 2012

1211.3104 (D. G. Kotsifaki et al.)

Optical tweezers with enhanced efficiency based on laser-structured
substrates
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D. G. Kotsifaki, M. Kandyla, I. Zergioti, M. Makropoulou, E. Chatzitheodoridis, A. A. Serafetinides
We present an optical nanotrapping setup that exhibits enhanced efficiency, based on localized plasmonic fields around sharp metallic features. The substrates consist of laser-structured silicon wafers with quasi-ordered microspikes on the surface, coated with a thin silver layer. The resulting optical traps show orders of magnitude enhancement of the trapping force and the effective quality factor.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3104

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