Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

Optical tweezers, tools based on strongly focused light, enable optical trapping,
manipulation, and characterisation of a wide range of microscopic and nanoscopic …

Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Optical tweezers (OTs) are innovative instruments utilized for the manipulation of
microscopic biological objects of interest. Rapid improvements in precision and degree of …

The possibility for the manipulation of many different samples using only the light from a
laser beam opened the way to a variety of experiments. The technique, known as Optical …

The recently discovered Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion (FnGD) is here finely tuned and
investigated over a wide range of probabilities and timescales using a quasi-2D suspension …

Demonstration of the light radiation pressure on a microscopic level by A. Ashkin led to the
invention of optical tweezers (OT). Applied in the studies of living systems, OT have become …

Integrated optical tweezers have the potential to enable highly-compact, low-cost, mass-
manufactured, and broadly-accessible optical manipulation when compared to standard …

Optical and acoustic tweezers, despite operating on different physical principles, offer non-
contact manipulation of microscopic and mesoscopic objects, making them essential in …