Study of adhesivity of surfaces using rotational optical tweezers
@article{Vaippully2018StudyOA, title={Study of adhesivity of surfaces using rotational optical tweezers}, author={Rahul Vaippully and Dhanush Bhatt and Anand Dev Ranjan and Basudev Roy}, journal={Physica Scripta}, year={2018}, volume={94} }
Optical tweezers are powerful tools for high resolution study of surface properties. Such experiments are traditionally performed by studying the active or the Brownian fluctuation of trapped particles in the X, Y and Z directions. Here we find that employing the fourth dimension, rotation, allows for sensitive and fast probing of the surface, and happen when birefringent microparticles are applied with circularly polarized light, thus called the rotational optical tweezers. When the trapped…
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