title: Origin and Future of Plasmonic Optical Tweezers.
abstract: Plasmonic optical tweezers can overcome the diffraction limits of conventional optical tweezers and enable the trapping of nanoscale objects. Extension of the trapping and manipulation of nanoscale objects with nanometer position precision opens up unprecedented opportunities for applications in the fields of biology, chemistry and statistical and atomic physics. Potential applications include direct molecular manipulation, lab-on-a-chip applications for viruses and vesicles and the study of nanoscale transport. This paper reviews the recent research progress and development bottlenecks and provides an overview of possible future directions in this field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan. jshuang@mx.nthu.edu.tw.|Center for Nanotechnology, Materials Sciences, and Microsystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan. jshuang@mx.nthu.edu.tw.|Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Science of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan. jshuang@mx.nthu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Jer-Shing
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan. ytyang@ee.nthu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Ya-Tang
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Yang
keywords: Brownian motion; nanomanipulation; nanoplasmonics; near-field optics; optical trapping; optical tweezers; plasmonics; surface plasmon