Andrews D. Optical Nanomanipulation 2ed 2022

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Since the publication of our first edition, interest in the area of optical manipulation has greatly expanded. To a significant degree, and entirely fittingly, this may be attributed to the belated award of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to Arthur Ashkin. With the announcement of this award, which as such post-dated our first edition, Ashkin became the oldest Nobel Prize laureate (at that time) at the age of 96. At the beginning of 2021, we gladly accepted the invitation by the Institute of Physics Publishing to update our book. This request was also timely in another way; over the last five years, an increasingly diverse volume of research has been published in this field. Aiming to retain an easy-to-understand approach, the primary objective of the second edition is to expand upon the original content, continuing to present the state of the art to the non-specialist reader.
Nanomanipulation: why optical methods are best
Key properties of the radiation
Optically induced mechanical forces
Laser deflection, cooling and trapping of atoms
Dielectric and metal nanoparticles: Rayleigh regime
Larger nanoparticles: Lorenz–Mie regime and beyond
Biological applications of optical forces
Optical trapping arrays
Orbital angular momentum, optical vortices and torques
Structured light: particle steering and traction
Optofluidics: lab-on-a-chip mixing and actuating flow
Optical binding
Past, present and future