Accurate delivery of small targets in high vacuum is a pivotal task in many branches of science and technology. Beyond the different strategies developed for atoms, proteins, macroscopic clusters, and pellets, the manipulation ...

Optical metasurfaces have shown to be a powerful approach to planar optical elements, enabling an unprecedented control over light phase and amplitude. At that stage, where a wide variety of static functionalities have ...

Building blocks of life show well-defined chiral symmetry which has a direct influence on their properties and role in Nature. Chiral molecules are typically characterized by optical techniques such as circular dichroism ...

In this paper we demonstrate the first use of enhanced optical forces and optically induced thermophoretic and convective forces produced by surface plasmon polariton excitation for large-scale ordering and trapping of ...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are present in many man-made products and cosmetics, and are also used by the food and medical industries. Tight regulations regarding the use of mammalian animals for product testing can hamper ...

Pentacene thin-film transistors have been obtained using polymethyl methacrylate as a gate dielectric. The maximum process temperature was 170 °C, which corresponds to the baking of the polymeric gate dielectric. These ...

High refractive index dielectric nanoresonators are attracting much attention due to their ability to control both electric and magnetic components of light. Combining confined modes with reduced absorption losses, they ...