Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Optical manipulation has achieved great success in the fields of biology, micro/nano robotics
and physical sciences in the past few decades. To date, the optical manipulation is still …

The optical manipulation of tiny objects is significant to understand and to explore the
unknown in the microworld, which has found many applications in materials science and life …

Optical trapping is widely used in different areas, ranging from biomedical applications, to
physics and material sciences. In recent years, optical fiber tweezers have attracted …

Optothermal manipulation is a versatile technique that combines optical and thermal forces
to control synthetic micro-/nanoparticles and biological entities. This emerging technique …

Plasmonic optical tweezers that stem from the need to trap and manipulate ever smaller
particles using non-invasive optical forces, have made significant contributions to precise …

Conspectus Nanofabrication is one of the core techniques in rapidly evolving nanoscience
and nanotechnology. Conventional top-down nanofabrication approaches such as …

The capabilities of manipulating and analyzing biological cells, bacteria, viruses,
deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs), and proteins at high resolution are significant in …

Silver nanowires (Ag NWs) present prominent waveguiding properties of subwavelength
light due to their nanoconfinement with propagating surface plasmons, which is of great …