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Manca M, Zhang C, Vasconcelos de Melo Freire R, Scheffold F, Salentinig S. Single particle investigation of triolein digestion using optical manipulation, polarized video microscopy, and SAXS. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 649:1039-1046. [PMID: 37406476 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Revised: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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HYPOTHESIS Understanding how soft colloids, such as food emulsion droplets, transform based on their environment is critical for various applications, including drug and nutrient delivery and biotechnology. However, the mechanisms behind colloidal transformations within individual oil droplets still need to be better understood. EXPERIMENTS This study employs optical micromanipulation with microfluidics and polarized optical video microscopy to investigate the pancreatic lipase- and pH-triggered colloidal transformations in a single triolein droplet. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) provides complementary statistical insights and allows for detailed structural assignment. FINDINGS Optical video microscopy recorded the transformation of individual triolein emulsion droplets, with the smooth surface of these spherical particles becoming rough and the entire volume eventually being affected. The polarized microscopy revealed the coexistence of at least two distinct structures in a single particle during digestion, with their ratio and distribution altered by pH. The SAXS analysis assigned the optical anisotropy to emulsified inverse hexagonal- and multilamellar phases, coexisting with isotropic structures such as the micellar cubic phase. These results can help understand the phase transformations inside an emulsion droplet during triglyceride digestion and guide the design of advanced food emulsions.
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- Marco Manca
- Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Melzer JE, McLeod E. Assembly of multicomponent structures from hundreds of micron-scale building blocks using optical tweezers. MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING 2021; 7:45. [PMID: 34567758 PMCID: PMC8433220 DOI: 10.1038/s41378-021-00272-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) microscale structures is critical for many applications, including strong and lightweight material development, medical device fabrication, microrobotics, and photonic applications. While 3D microfabrication has seen progress over the past decades, complex multicomponent integration with small or hierarchical feature sizes is still a challenge. In this study, an optical positioning and linking (OPAL) platform based on optical tweezers is used to precisely fabricate 3D microstructures from two types of micron-scale building blocks linked by biochemical interactions. A computer-controlled interface with rapid on-the-fly automated recalibration routines maintains accuracy even after placing many building blocks. OPAL achieves a 60-nm positional accuracy by optimizing the molecular functionalization and laser power. A two-component structure consisting of 448 1-µm building blocks is assembled, representing the largest number of building blocks used to date in 3D optical tweezer microassembly. Although optical tweezers have previously been used for microfabrication, those results were generally restricted to single-material structures composed of a relatively small number of larger-sized building blocks, with little discussion of critical process parameters. It is anticipated that OPAL will enable the assembly, augmentation, and repair of microstructures composed of specialty micro/nanomaterial building blocks to be used in new photonic, microfluidic, and biomedical devices.
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- Jeffrey E. Melzer
- Wyant College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
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- Wyant College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
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O'Brien MJ, Grier DG. Above and beyond: holographic tracking of axial displacements in holographic optical tweezers. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:25375-25383. [PMID: 31510410 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.025375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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How far a particle moves along the optical axis in a holographic optical trap is not simply dictated by the programmed motion of the trap, but rather depends on an interplay of the trap's changing shape and the particle's material properties. For the particular case of colloidal spheres in optical tweezers, holographic video microscopy reveals that trapped particles tend to move farther along the axial direction than the traps that are moving them and that different kinds of particles move by different amounts. These surprising and sizeable variations in axial placement can be explained by a dipole-order theory for optical forces. Their discovery highlights the need for real-time feedback to achieve precise control of colloidal assemblies in three dimensions and demonstrates that holographic microscopy can meet that need.
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Kotnala A, Zheng Y. Digital Assembly of Colloidal Particles for Nanoscale Manufacturing. PARTICLE & PARTICLE SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZATION : MEASUREMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES AND BEHAVIOR IN POWDERS AND OTHER DISPERSE SYSTEMS 2019; 36:1900152. [PMID: 33041521 PMCID: PMC7546242 DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.201900152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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From unravelling the most fundamental phenomena to enabling applications that impact our everyday lives, the nanoscale world holds great promise for science, technology and medicine. However, the extent of its practical realization would rely on manufacturing at the nanoscale. Among the various nanomanufacturing approaches being investigated, the bottom-up approach involving assembly of colloidal nanoparticles as building blocks is promising. Compared to a top-down lithographic approach, particle assembly exhibits advantages such as smaller feature size, finer control of chemical composition, less defects, lower material wastage, and higher scalability. The capability to assemble colloidal particles one by one or "digitally" has been heavily sought as it mimics the natural way of making matter and enables construction of nanomaterials with sophisticated architectures. This progress report provides an insight into the tools and techniques for digital assembly of particles, including their working mechanisms and demonstrated particle assemblies. Examples of nanomaterials and nanodevices are presented to demonstrate the strength of digital assembly in nanomanufacturing.
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- Abhay Kotnala
- Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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Melzer JE, McLeod E. Fundamental Limits of Optical Tweezer Nanoparticle Manipulation Speeds. ACS NANO 2018; 12:2440-2447. [PMID: 29400940 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b07914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Optical tweezers are a noncontact method of 3D positioning applicable to the fields of micro- and nanomanipulation and assembly, among others. In these applications, the ability to manipulate particles over relatively long distances at high speed is essential in determining overall process efficiency and throughput. In order to maximize manipulation speeds, it is necessary to increase the trapping laser power, which is often accompanied by undesirable heating effects due to material absorption. As such, the majority of previous studies focus primarily on trapping large dielectric microspheres using slow movement speeds at low laser powers, over relatively short translation distances. In contrast, we push nanoparticle manipulation beyond the region in which maximum lateral movement speed is linearly proportional to laser power, and investigate the fundamental limits imposed by material absorption, thus quantifying maximum possible speeds attainable with optical tweezers. We find that gold and silver nanospheres of diameter 100 nm are limited to manipulation speeds of ∼0.15 mm/s, while polystyrene spheres of diameter 160 nm can reach speeds up to ∼0.17 mm/s, over distances ranging from 0.1 to 1 mm. When the laser power is increased beyond the values used for these maximum manipulation speeds, the nanoparticles are no longer stably trapped in 3D due to weak confinement as a result of material absorption, heating, microbubble formation, and enhanced Brownian motion. We compared this result to our theoretical model, incorporating optical forces in the Rayleigh regime, Stokes' drag, and absorption effects, and found good agreement. These results show that optical tweezers can be fast enough to compete with other common, serial rapid prototyping and nanofabrication approaches.
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- Jeffrey E Melzer
- College of Optical Sciences , University of Arizona , Tucson , Arizona 85721 , United States
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- College of Optical Sciences , University of Arizona , Tucson , Arizona 85721 , United States
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We demonstrate optical manipulation with an optical beam generated by a fractral zone plate (FZP). The experimental results show that the FZP beam can simultaneously trap multiple particles positioned in different focal planes of the FZP beam, owing to the multiple foci and self-reconstruction property of the FZP beam. The FZP beam can also be used to construct three-dimensional optical tweezers for potential applications.
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Barroso Á, Landwerth S, Woerdemann M, Alpmann C, Buscher T, Becker M, Studer A, Denz C. Optical assembly of bio-hybrid micro-robots. Biomed Microdevices 2016; 17:26. [PMID: 25681045 PMCID: PMC4328111 DOI: 10.1007/s10544-015-9933-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The combination of micro synthetic structures with bacterial flagella motors represents an actual trend for the construction of self-propelled micro-robots. The development of methods for fabrication of these bacteria-based robots is a first crucial step towards the realization of functional miniature and autonomous moving robots. We present a novel scheme based on optical trapping to fabricate living micro-robots. By using holographic optical tweezers that allow three-dimensional manipulation in real time, we are able to arrange the building blocks that constitute the micro-robot in a defined way. We demonstrate exemplarily that our method enables the controlled assembly of living micro-robots consisting of a rod-shaped prokaryotic bacterium and a single elongated zeolite L crystal, which are used as model of the biological and abiotic components, respectively. We present different proof-of-principle approaches for the site-selective attachment of the bacteria on the particle surface. The propulsion of the optically assembled micro-robot demonstrates the potential of the proposed method as a powerful strategy for the fabrication of bio-hybrid micro-robots.
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- Álvaro Barroso
- Institute of Applied Physics, Westfälische Wilhems Universität, Correnstrasse 2-4, 48149, Muenster, Germany,
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Telbiz G, Bugaychuk S, Leonenko E, Derzhypolska L, Gnatovskyy V, Pryadko I. Ability of dynamic holography in self-assembled hybrid nanostructured silica films for all-optical switching and multiplexing. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2015; 10:196. [PMID: 25977667 PMCID: PMC4420761 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0898-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 04/08/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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UNLABELLED The sol-gel method has been employed in the fabrication of easily processable mesostructured films consisting of a nonionic surfactant and silica as the inorganic component. The ability of the occluded Pluronic P123 mesostructures to solubilize guest molecules made these films ideal host matrices for organic dyes and molecular assemblies, possessing substantial nonlinear susceptibilities. These films were explored for use as the photonic layer in all-optical time-to-space converters and proved successful at increasing the optical response of the intercalated dyes to a point that would make these composite films applicable for use as the photonic layer. Recording of a dynamical grating in a single-pulse regime has been obtained. Since the dynamical grating exhibits the fast relaxation time (up to 10 ns), the nonlinear mechanism represents an electronic excitation of the photosensitive molecules. As far as the dye molecules are distributed in nanoporous silica, a model of 'gas of molecular dye' may be rightly used in order to consider nonlinear optical properties in the nanostructured hybrid films. We suppose that further improvement of the nonlinear optical nanomaterials may follow on the way to embed additional inclusions, which will not promote the heat accumulation in the host matrix and will lead to effective dissipation of the heat energy. PACS 78.20.-e; 42.70 -а; 42.79.
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- German Telbiz
- />L.V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauki 31, Kiev, 03128 Ukraine
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- />Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauki 46, Kiev, 03028 Ukraine
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- />L.V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauki 31, Kiev, 03128 Ukraine
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- />Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauki 46, Kiev, 03028 Ukraine
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- />Physical Department, Taras Shevchenko National University, Prospect Glushkova 4, Kiev, 03127 Ukraine
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- />Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauki 46, Kiev, 03028 Ukraine
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Mirri G, Jampani VSR, Cordoyiannis G, Umek P, Kouwer PHJ, Muševič I. Stabilisation of 2D colloidal assemblies by polymerisation of liquid crystalline matrices for photonic applications. SOFT MATTER 2014; 10:5797-5803. [PMID: 24975013 DOI: 10.1039/c4sm00358f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Colloidal crystals in anisotropic matrices are extremely stable and versatile, but disassemble as soon as the anisotropy of the matrix disappears. We present an approach to first custom-assemble colloidal structures and subsequently stabilize them through photo-polymerisation of the liquid crystalline matrix. The resulting 2D colloidal assemblies are stable at high temperatures and can even be obtained as free-standing films without a decrease in the degree of organization. This approach could be used to stabilize and extract recently proposed soft-matter photonic microcircuits based on liquid crystal optical microresonators, microlasers and microfibers, and opens up routes towards real soft matter photonic devices that are stable over extended time and temperatures.
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- Giorgio Mirri
- Soft Matter Materials Lab, Solid State Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Veiga-Gutiérrez M, Woerdemann M, Prasetyanto E, Denz C, De Cola L. Optical-tweezers assembly-line for the construction of complex functional zeolite L structures. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2012; 24:5199-5198. [PMID: 22806975 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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- M Veiga-Gutiérrez
- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Nanotechnologie, Heisenbergstraße 11, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Erickson D, Serey X, Chen YF, Mandal S. Nanomanipulation using near field photonics. LAB ON A CHIP 2011; 11:995-1009. [PMID: 21243158 DOI: 10.1039/c0lc00482k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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In this article we review the use of near-field photonics for trapping, transport and handling of nanomaterials. While the advantages of traditional optical tweezing are well known at the microscale, direct application of these techniques to the handling of nanoscale materials has proven difficult due to unfavourable scaling of the fundamental physics. Recently a number of research groups have demonstrated how the evanescent fields surrounding photonic structures like photonic waveguides, optical resonators, and plasmonic nanoparticles can be used to greatly enhance optical forces. Here, we introduce some of the most common implementations of these techniques, focusing on those which have relevance to microfluidic or optofluidic applications. Since the field is still relatively nascent, we spend much of the article laying out the fundamental and practical advantages that near field optical manipulation offers over both traditional optical tweezing and other particle handling techniques. In addition we highlight three application areas where these techniques namely could be of interest to the lab-on-a-chip community, namely: single molecule analysis, nanoassembly, and optical chromatography.
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- David Erickson
- Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Alpmann C, Bowman R, Woerdemann M, Padgett M, Denz C. Mathieu beams as versatile light moulds for 3D micro particle assemblies. OPTICS EXPRESS 2010; 18:26084-91. [PMID: 21164957 DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.026084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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We present tailoring of three dimensional light fields which act as light moulds for elaborate particle micro structures of variable shapes. Stereo microscopy is used for visualization of the 3D particle assemblies. The powerful method is demonstrated for the class of propagation invariant beams, where we introduce the use of Mathieu beams as light moulds with non-rotationally-symmetric structure. They offer multifarious field distributions and facilitate the creation of versatile particle structures. This general technique may find its application in micro fluidics, chemistry, biology, and medicine, to create highly efficient mixing tools, for hierarchical supramolecular organization or in 3D tissue engineering.
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- C Alpmann
- Institut für Angewandte Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Arpin KA, Mihi A, Johnson HT, Baca AJ, Rogers JA, Lewis JA, Braun PV. Multidimensional architectures for functional optical devices. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2010; 22:1084-1101. [PMID: 20401933 DOI: 10.1002/adma.200904096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Materials exhibiting multidimensional structure with characteristic lengths ranging from the nanometer to the micrometer scale have extraordinary potential for emerging optical applications based on the regulation of light-matter interactions via the mesoscale organization of matter. As the structural dimensionality increases, the opportunities for controlling light-matter interactions become increasingly diverse and powerful. Recent advances in multidimensional structures have been demonstrated that serve as the basis for three-dimensional photonic-bandgap materials, metamaterials, optical cloaks, highly efficient low-cost solar cells, and chemical and biological sensors. In this Review, the state-of-the-art design and fabrication of multidimensional architectures for functional optical devices are covered and the next steps for this important field are described.
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- Kevin A Arpin
- Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory 104 South Goodwin Ave Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Fundamentals and Applications of Microsphere Resonator Circuits. SPRINGER SERIES IN OPTICAL SCIENCES 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1744-7_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Simpson SH, Hanna S. Thermal motion of a holographically trapped SPM-like probe. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2009; 20:395710. [PMID: 19726835 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/39/395710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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By holding a complex object in multiple optical traps, it may be harmonically bound with respect to both its position and its orientation. In this way a small probe, or nanotool, can be manipulated in three dimensions and used to measure and apply directed forces, in the manner of a scanning probe microscope. In this paper we evaluate the thermal motion of such a probe held in holographic optical tweezers, by solving the Langevin equation for the general case of a set of spherical vertices linked by cylindrical rods. The concept of a corner frequency, familiar from the case of an optically trapped sphere, is appropriately extended to represent a set of characteristic frequencies given by the eigenvalues of the product of the stiffness matrix and the inverse hydrodynamic resistance matrix of the tool. These eigenvalues may alternatively be interpreted as inverses of a set of characteristic relaxation times for the system. The approach is illustrated by reference to a hypothetical tool consisting of a triangular arrangement of spheres with a lateral probe. The characteristic frequencies and theoretical resolution of the device are derived; variations of these quantities with tool size and orientation and with the optical power distribution, are also considered.
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- Stephen H Simpson
- H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
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Grieve JA, Ulcinas A, Subramanian S, Gibson GM, Padgett MJ, Carberry DM, Miles MJ. Hands-on with optical tweezers: a multitouch interface for holographic optical trapping. OPTICS EXPRESS 2009; 17:3595-3602. [PMID: 19259199 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.003595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We report the implementation of a multitouch console for control of a holographic optical tweezers system. This innovative interface enables the independent but simultaneous interactive control of numerous optical traps by multiple users, overcoming the limitations of traditional interfaces and placing the full power of holographic optical tweezing into the operators' hands.
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- J A Grieve
- H. H. Wills Physics Laboratories, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Wills JB, Butler JR, Palmer J, Reid JP. Using optical landscapes to control, direct and isolate aerosol particles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2009; 11:8015-20. [DOI: 10.1039/b908270k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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