title: New opto-plasmonic tweezers for manipulation and rotation of biological cells--design and fabrication.
abstract: Opto-Plasmonic Tweezers are proposed as a new optical manipulator and rotator for biological cells. The approach utilizes polarized light to excite localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) on an array of Au nanostructure. Large dielectrophoretic trapping force is expected to be induced by the highly non-uniform scattering field from the resonant oscillating dipoles. Fine orientation control of the cells can be realized by tuning the polarization state of the input light.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Electr. Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA 98105, USA. xiaoyu@ee.washington.edu
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.forename: Lih Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods; D004583:Electrons; D004867:Equipment Design; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry; D008027:Light; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000378:metabolism; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning / Q000379:methods; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D053758:Nanoparticles; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D052898:Optical Tweezers; D009991:Oscillometry; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D019415:Torque
chemical_list: D006046:Gold