Articles by Emily Christine Knouf in JoVE

Utilization of Plasmonic and Photonic Crystal Nanostructures for Enhanced Micro- and Nanoparticle Manipulation

JoVE 3390 9/27/2011

Cameron S. Simmons¹, Emily Christine Knouf^2,3, Muneesh Tewari^2,4,5, Lih Y. Lin¹

¹Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, ²Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, ³Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, ⁴Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, ⁵Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Plasmonic tweezers and photonic crystal nanostructures are shown to produce useful enhancements in the efficiency and orientation control of optically trapping micro- and nano-particles.