Marago, O. M. and Jones, P. H. and Bonaccorso, F. and Scardaci, V. and Gucciardi, P. G. and Rozhin, A. G. and Ferrari, A. C. (2008) Femtonewton Force Sensing with Optically Trapped Nanotubes. NANO LETTERS, 8 (10). pp. 3211-3216.
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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl8015413
Abstract
We extract the distribution of both center-of-mass and angular fluctuations from three-dimensional tracking of optically trapped nanotubes. We measure the optical force and torque constants from autocorrelation and cross-correlation of the tracking signals. This allows us to isolate the angular Brownian motion. We demonstrate that nanotubes enable nanometer spatial and femtonewton force resolution in photonic force microscopy, the smallest to date. This has wide implications in nanotechnology, biotechnology, nanofluidics, and material science.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Analytical Science > Microscopy and probe methods Physical Science > Nano objects Physical Science > Photonics |
| ID Code: | 1913 |
| Deposited By: | Farnush Anwar |
| Deposited On: | 16 Dec 2008 15:25 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2009 09:17 |
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