Utilization of Plasmonic and Photonic Crystal Nanostructures for Enhanced Micro- and Nanoparticle ManipulationCameron S. Simmons 1, Emily Christine Knouf 2,3, Muneesh Tewari 2,4,5, Lih Y. Lin 1
1Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, 2Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , 3Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, 4Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , 5Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Plasmonic tweezers and photonic crystal nanostructures are shown to produce useful enhancements in the efficiency and orientation control of optically trapping micro- and nano-particles.
