Manipulation of microdisks in laser tweezers

Zhengdong Cheng; A. Fernandez De Las Nieves; Manuel Marquez; D. A. Weitz; T. G. Mason; P. M. Chaikin

doi:10.1117/12.556009

Manipulation of microdisks in laser tweezers

Zhengdong Cheng, A. Fernandez De Las Nieves, Manuel Marquez, D. A. Weitz, T. G. Mason, P. M. Chaikin

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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 the oretical 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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	12
Pages (from-to)	99-108
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5514
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.556009
State	Published - 2004
Event	Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation - Denver, CO, United States Duration: Aug 2 2004 → Aug 6 2004

Keywords

Birefringence
Laser tweezers
Microdisks
Oscillation
Rotation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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