Title :
Mechanistic study on plasmon-based optical trapping of hard and soft nanoparticles
Author :
Shoji, Tomoyuki ; Tsuboi, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
We demonstrated that localized surface plasmon enables to efficient optical trapping of nanoparticles and polymer chains due to the enhancement effect of an incident resonant electromagnetic field at the surfaces of noble metallic nanostructures.
Keywords :
nanoparticles; plasmonics; radiation pressure; surface plasmons; enhancement effect; hard nanoparticle; incident resonant electromagnetic field; localized surface plasmon; nanoparticle optical trapping; noble metallic nanostructure; plasmon based optical trapping; polymer chains; soft nanoparticle; Biomedical optical imaging; Charge carrier processes; Fluorescence; Optical device fabrication; Optical polymers; Plasmons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600292
