Optical tweezer helps make phonon laser 05 Apr 2019 Isabelle Dumé Rochester researchers are trapping nanoparticle-sized silica beads in an optical tweezer in a series of experiments that could shed ...

I wish to clarify one point in the article "Special Report: Cell Biologists Combine Old With New Tools" [The Scientist, Dec. 10, 1990, page 28]. Although the article says that Cell Robotics was ...

Using laser tweezers, chemists nudged two atoms to bond. It’s the first time chemists have manipulated two atoms to create a compound. GETTING TOGETHER For the first time, ...

Next-generation optical atomic clocks are able to stabilize a laser frequency to atoms “ticking” between two energy levels, with their extraordinary precision equivalent to gaining or losing less than ...

Sep 08, 2023: New laser tweezers allow gentle, efficient manipulation of cells and nanoparticles (w/video) (Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical tweezers have been a cornerstone technology for manipulating ...

Physicists Build Laser Tweezers Controlled with Kinect. Now you can pick up and move micrometre-scale particles using your hands and arms thanks to a Kinect-controlled device called HoloHands. By .

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But the tweezers developed by Hirano’s team exploit the dielectric properties of tiny latex beads, which are added to a solution of DNA molecules, each around 40 micrometres long. To grasp a strand, ...

Laser tweezers make polymers shrink. 17 Jun 2002. A novel laser technique for shrinking polymers could deliver new medical and communications applications. Japanese scientists have discovered a unique ...