Abstract
Here we present our initial study of a surface tension-enhanced optical trapping for lateral close-packing of dielectric objects. This is a novel approach to optically trap multiple micro-scale objects even with a lower intensity of the beam. Such lateral close-packing by indirect optical trapping was stably formed without splitting a single gradient beam into several optical trapping arrays. This technique would be contributed to study cell-to-cell interactions and cell fusion dynamics of living cells in nano- and micro-fluidic environments.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | e237-e241 |
Journal | Current Applied Physics |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | SUPPL. 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by a Grant of the Korea Health 21 R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (02-PJ10-PG4-PT02-0042).
Keywords
- Lateral close-packing
- Optical trapping
- Single beam trap