Surface tension-enhanced optical trapping for lateral close-packing

Won Gu Lee, Hyunwoo Bang, Hwa Joon Park, Keunchang Cho, Chanil Chung, Dong Chul Han, Jun Keun Chang

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)e237-e241
JournalCurrent Applied Physics
Volume6
Issue numberSUPPL. 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 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

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