DocumentCode
1664880
Title
Overcoming the temperature increase hurdle in photonic crystal molecular tweezers
Author
Serey, Xavier ; Chen, Yih-Fan ; Fain, Romy ; Kang, Pilgyu ; Erickson, David
Author_Institution
Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
fYear
2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We study the thermal effects on flow and transport of species near 1550nm silicon photonic crystal nano-tweezers. With a silicon nitride based 1064nm alternative we reduce heating to 0.3K temperature increase and demonstrate molecular tweezing.
Keywords
DNA; biomolecular effects of radiation; nanophotonics; optical materials; optical resonators; photonic crystals; radiation pressure; silicon compounds; thermo-optical effects; DNA transport; SiN; heating reduction; photonic crystal molecular tweezers; photonic crystal resonators; silicon nitride; silicon photonic crystal nanotweezers; thermal effects; wavelength 1064 nm; Biomedical optical imaging; Charge carrier processes; Mathematical model; Optical resonators; Photonic crystals; Proteins; Silicon;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1839-6
Type
conf
Filename
6326078
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