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 …

Ion transport and hydrodynamic flow through nanometer-sized channels (nanopores) have
been increasingly studied owing to not only the fundamental interest in the abundance of …

Optical tweezers are devices that use a single, strongly focused laser beam for the remote,
noncontact trapping and manipulation of microscopic objects. Since the first demonstration …

The flat endface of an optical fiber tip is an emerging light-coupled microscopic platform that
combines fiber optics with planar micro-and nanotechnologies. Since different materials and …

Plasmonic nanotweezers employing metallic nanoantennas provide a powerful tool for
trapping nanoscale particles, but the strong heating effect resulting from light absorption …

Recent advances in nanotechnologies have prompted the need for tools to accurately and
non-invasively manipulate individual nano-objects. Among the possible strategies, optical …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is an ultrasensitive spectroscopic technique
that can identify materials and chemicals based on their inelastic light-scattering properties …

The ability of metallic nanostructures to confine light at the sub-wavelength scale enables
new perspectives and opportunities in the field of nanotechnology. Making use of this …

Solid-state nanopores promise a scalable platform for single-molecule DNA analysis. Direct,
real-time identification of nucleobases in DNA strands is still limited by the sensitivity and the …

Plasmonic nanocavities have proved to confine electromagnetic fields into deep
subwavelength volumes, implying their potentials for enhanced optical trapping and sensing …