• 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