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, ...

A new measurement theory for dual-trap optical tweezers shows researchers for the first time how to easily optimize their experiments to limit noise from Brownian movement. You have full access to ...

Optical tweezers, which earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, are a powerful tool used to manipulate microscopic ...

The study is published in the journal Optica. The team's method involved creating "ballistic rotating optical tweezers"—by shining a laser through a microscope and controlling its polarization ...

The Lumicks C-Trap® is a correlative single-molecule system combining optical tweezers with multicolour fluorescence imaging. This enables simultaneous manipulation of trapped molecules of interest ...

Democratizing optical-tweezer-based rheology Optical tweezers use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move atoms, nanoparticles or micron-sized particles. As the name itself suggests, they are ...

We marry the tools of quantum gas microscopy, optical tweezer technology, and high precision spectroscopy in order to gain single-particle control at fundamental length scales and very small energy ...

Exploiting the hyperfine structure in repulsive light-assisted collisions (LAC) on a 87-Rubidium atom pair in an optical tweezer. When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example ...

Magnetic tweezers are a versatile single-molecule manipulation technique that uses magnetic fields to apply forces and torques on magnetic particles attached to biological molecules, such as DNA, RNA, ...