title: Optical trapping and manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles: fundamentals, applications, and perspectives.
abstract: This feature article discusses the optical trapping and manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles, an area of current interest with potential applications in nanofabrication, sensing, analytics, biology and medicine. We give an overview over the basic theoretical concepts relating to optical forces, plasmon resonances and plasmonic heating. We discuss fundamental studies of plasmonic particles in optical traps and the temperature profiles around them. We place a particular emphasis on our own work employing optically trapped plasmonic nanoparticles towards nanofabrication, manipulation of biomimetic objects and sensing.
authors.affiliation: Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, Department of Physics and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amalienstr. 54, 80799 Munich, Germany. fjaeckel@liv.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Alexander S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: Sol
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carretero-Palacios
authors.forename: Andrey A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Lutich
authors.forename: Theobald
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lohmüller
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feldmann
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jäckel