Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1986, American physicist Arthur Ashkin developed a fascinating tool that could gently pick and move microscopic objects like ...

Discover the evolution of optical tweezers, a powerful tool used to manipulate particles at the microscopic scale. Explore their history, advancements, and wide-ranging applications in nanotechnology, ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

Optical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have long sought to develop versatile tools that allow precise manipulation and identification of DNA and other biological nanoparticles. Optical tweezers, which use lasers ...

In this interview, AZoNano speaks with Jingang Li from the University of California, Berkley, who offers an introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning technology, Optical Tweezers. We discuss the history ...

MIT researchers have harnessed integrated optical phased array (OPA) technology to develop a type of integrated optical tweezers, akin to a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam”—like the one that ...

Fig. 1. FSOT on various substrates. (a) Schematic diagram of FSOT enabling cross-scale, high-throughput, and multifunctional manipulation of bioparticles. (b) Microscopic images of FSOT fabricated on ...