Optical tweezers and related techniques provide extraordinary opportunities for research and applications in the physical, ...

Over the last few decades, electronic devices have drastically changed. Radios that once had point-to-point wiring gave way ...

Discover the evolution of optical tweezers, a powerful tool used to manipulate particles at the microscopic scale. Explore their history, advancements, and wide-ranging applications in nanotechnology, ...

[Ken] found that using traditional tweezers is a good way to lose tiny surface mount parts and so set out to make his own vacuum tweezers (PDF). He already had a small aquarium pump that he used ...

A new measurement theory for dual-trap optical tweezers shows researchers for the first time how to easily optimize their experiments to limit noise from Brownian movement.

Francesca Ferlaino has set a new milestone in atomic physics by trapping individual erbium atoms in optical tweezers for the ...

This tool, called optical tweezers, uses a focused laser to hold and manipulate objects. Even after 48 years, optical tweezers are still very relevant, and physicists continue to use this ...

The Lumicks C-Trap® is a correlative single-molecule system combining optical tweezers with multicolour fluorescence imaging. This enables simultaneous manipulation of trapped molecules of interest ...