Controlled assembly of inorganic nanoparticles with different compositions, sizes and
shapes into higher-order structures of collective functionalities is a central pursued objective …

Nanophotonics has been an active research field over the past two decades, triggered by
the rising interests in exploring new physics and technologies with light at the nanoscale. As …

Deep-learning framework has significantly impelled the development of modern machine
learning technology by continuously pushing the limit of traditional recognition and …

Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the cornerstones in modern optics
and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits, particle manipulation, metrology …

Optical forces are involved in many physical processes and are used routinely in the
laboratory for manipulating and cooling matter, from the micro down to the quantum scales. It …

Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Conspectus Chirality in Nature can be found across all length scales, from the subatomic to
the galactic. At the molecular scale, the spatial dissymmetry in the atomic arrangements of …

Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

Chiral photochemistry remains a challenge because of the very small asymmetry in the chiro-
optical absorption of molecular species. However, we think that the rapidly developing fields …

Lateral optical forces induced by linearly polarized laser beams have been predicted to
deflect dipolar particles with opposite chiralities toward opposite transversal directions …