Accession Number:

ADA611287

Title:

Optical Forces Near Microfabricated Devices

Descriptive Note:

Doctoral thesis

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

Personal Author(s):

• Prada, Camilo A.

Report Date:

2013-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

94.0

Abstract:

The PhD thesis theoretically proposes the idea of light-assisted, templated self assembly and describes its experimental demonstration. It is numerically demonstrated that trapped gold nanoparticles near a photonic-crystal microcavity form secondary traps for dielectric particles, allowing the formation of multi-particle clusters. Experiments on giant unilamellar vesicles in dual-beam optical traps are also described.

Descriptors:

• *OPTICAL PROPERTIES
• *PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
• ASSEMBLY
• DIELECTRICS
• PARTICLES
• THESES
• TRAPPING(CHARGED PARTICLES)

Subject Categories:

• Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE