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Optical Trapping of Gold Nanoparticles in Air
Liselotte Jauffred1, S Mohammad-Reza Taheri2, Regina Schmitt1
1†Solid State Physics and Nanometer Structure Consortium (nmC@LU), Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
Nano Letters
|June 18, 2015
Abstract:
Most progress on optical nanoparticle control has been in liquids, while optical control in air has proven more challenging. By utilizing an air chamber designed to have a minimum of turbulence and a single laser beam with a minimum of aberration, we trapped individual 200 to 80 nm gold nanoparticles in air and quantified the corresponding trapping strengths. These results pave the way for construction of metallic nanostructures in air away from surfaces.
