The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

The study and applications of ferroelectric materials in the biomedical and biotechnological
fields is a novel and very promising scientific area that spans roughly one decade. However …

The electrodeless biocompatible manipulation of femtoliter‐scale aqueous microdroplets
remains challenging. The appropriate isolation of electrostatic charges from femtoliter‐scale …

The application of evanescent photovoltaic (PV) fields, generated by visible illumination of
Fe: LiNbO 3 substrates, for parallel massive trapping and manipulation of micro-and nano …

Optical and optoelectronic techniques for micro-and nano-object manipulation are becoming
essential tools in nano-and biotechnology. The use of photovoltaic optoelectronic tweezers …

We investigated the effect of a photovoltaic field generated on the surface of iron-doped
lithium niobate crystals on sessile droplets of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline and a …

Sessile droplets of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline material were exposed to surface
electric fields produced by pyroelectric and photogalvanic (photovoltaic) effects in X-cut iron …

This review presents an up-dated summary of the fundamentals and applications of
optoelectronic photovoltaic tweezers for trapping and manipulation of nano-objects on the …

Aqueous microdroplets are challenging objects for photoassisted manipulation techniques
based on lithium niobate (LN) substrates. In this paper, we demonstrate a successful …

The bulk photovoltaic effect is a phenomenon that generates high electric fields in certain
ferroelectric crystals under illumination, as iron doped lithium niobate (LiNbO_3: Fe). A …