Manipulation of microdisks in laser tweezers

Zhengdong Cheng; A. Fernandez de las Nieves; Manuel Marquez; David A. Weitz; Thomas G. Mason; Paul M. Chaikin

doi:10.1117/12.556009

18 October 2004 Manipulation of microdisks in laser tweezers

Zhengdong Cheng, A. Fernandez de las Nieves, Manuel Marquez, David A. Weitz, Thomas G. Mason, Paul M. Chaikin

Proceedings Volume 5514, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.556009
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Short thin cylinders can be the basic part of mesoscopic actuators powered by laser tweezers. We demonstrate that micro size birefringent colloidal coins can be positioned translationally and orientationally in advance of the prediction of current theoretical modeling. Circularly polarized laser tweezers keep driving the rotation of the microdisk. Viscous flow between a hard wall and a microdisk excites the disk to an oscillation orbit. These disks can be fabricated via solidification of emulsion drops by tuning temperature or solvent concentration so that molecules in the drop assuming a smectic phase.

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Zhengdong Cheng, A. Fernandez de las Nieves, Manuel Marquez, David A. Weitz, Thomas G. Mason, and Paul M. Chaikin "Manipulation of microdisks in laser tweezers", Proc. SPIE 5514, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation, (18 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.556009

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