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Utilization of Plasmonic and Photonic Crystal Nanostructures for Enhanced Micro- and Nanoparticle Manipulation

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September 27th, 2011

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September 27th, 2011

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Cameron S. Simmons¹, Emily Christine Knouf²^,³, Muneesh Tewari²^,⁴^,⁵, Lih Y. Lin¹

¹Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, ²Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , ³Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, ⁴Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , ⁵Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Summary

Plasmonic tweezers and photonic crystal nanostructures are shown to produce useful enhancements in the efficiency and orientation control of optically trapping micro- and nano-particles.

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Photonic Crystal Nanostructures

Micro And Nanoparticle Manipulation

Dielectrophoresis DEP

Optical Tweezers

Electromagnetic Field Gradient

Radiation Intensity

Optical Manipulation

Biological Samples

Optoelectronic Tweezers OET

Trapping And Sorting

Fine Manipulation

Gold Nanoparticle AuNP Array

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Title

1:34

Random Au Nanoparticle Array Fabrication

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Biological Sample Preparation and Trapping Method

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Representative Results

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Conclusion

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