Metasurface micro/nano-optical sensors: principles and applications

J Qin, S Jiang, Z Wang, X Cheng, B Li, Y Shi, DP Tsai… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces are 2D artificial materials consisting of arrays of metamolecules, which are
exquisitely designed to manipulate light in terms of amplitude, phase, and polarization state …

Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Optical manipulation with metamaterial structures

Y Shi, Q Song, I Toftul, T Zhu, Y Yu, W Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools
employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical …

Stable optical lateral forces from inhomogeneities of the spin angular momentum

Y Shi, T Zhu, J Liu, DP Tsai, H Zhang, S Wang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Transverse spin momentum related to the spin angular momentum (SAM) of light has been
theoretically studied recently and predicted to generate an intriguing optical lateral force …

Exploiting extraordinary topological optical forces at bound states in the continuum

H Qin, Y Shi, Z Su, G Wei, Z Wang, X Cheng, AQ Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Polarization singularities and topological vortices in photonic crystal slabs centered at
bound states in the continuum (BICs) can be attributed to zero amplitude of polarization …

Recent progress on optical micro/nanomanipulations: structured forces, structured particles, and synergetic applications

LM Zhou, Y Shi, X Zhu, G Hu, G Cao, J Hu, CW Qiu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
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 …

Highly‐Adaptable Optothermal Nanotweezers for Trapping, Sorting, and Assembling across Diverse Nanoparticles

J Chen, J Zhou, Y Peng, X Dai, Y Tan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Optical manipulation of various kinds of nanoparticles is vital in biomedical engineering.
However, classical optical approaches demand higher laser power and are constrained by …

Multiplexed Near-Field Optical Trapping Exploiting Anapole States

D Conteduca, G Brunetti, I Barth, SD Quinn… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical tweezers have had a major impact on bioscience research by enabling the study of
biological particles with high accuracy. The focus so far has been on trapping individual …

Superchiral light emerging from bound states in the continuum in metasurfaces of Si nanorod dimers

JL Pura, B Castillo López de Larrinzar, M Liang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) in all-dielectric metasurfaces enhance light–matter
interaction at the nanoscale due to their infinite Q factors and strong field confinement …

Nanoparticle deep-subwavelength dynamics empowered by optical meron–antimeron topology

C Lu, B Wang, X Fang, DP Tsai, W Zhu, Q Song… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical meron is a type of nonplanar topological texture mainly observed in surface plasmon
polaritons and highly symmetric points of photonic crystals in the reciprocal space. Here, we …