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Fabrication and Operation of a Nano-Optical Conveyor Belt
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2015
The scalability and resolution of conventional optical manipulation techniques are limited by diffraction. We circumvent the diffraction limit and describe a method of optically transporting nanoparticles across a chip using a gold surface patterned with a path of closely spaced C-shaped plasmonic resonators.
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Using Optical Tweezers for the Generation of Hybrid Spheroids
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2025
In this paper, we propose a protocol for hybrid spheroid manufacturing using optical tweezers. This method allows precise control of the early stages of the spheroid formation process, which is unattainable by other methods.
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Patterning via Optical Saturable Transitions - Fabrication and Characterization
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2014
We report that the diffraction limit of conventional optical lithography can be overcome by exploiting the transitions of organic photochromic derivatives induced by their photoisomerization at low light intensities.1-3 This paper outlines our fabrication technique and two locking mechanisms, namely: dissolution of one photoisomer and electrochemical oxidation.
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Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres for Optical Resonator and Laser Applications
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2017
Protocols for the synthesis of microspheres from polymers, the manipulation of microspheres, and micro-photoluminescence measurements are presented.
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Hybrid Printing for the Fabrication of Smart Sensors
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2019
Here we present a protocol for the fabrication of inkjet-printed multilayer sensor structures on additively manufactured substrates and foil.
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Designers assign complementary roles to integrated elements: refractive lenses can focus light, diffractive surfaces can shape its distribution, and waveguides can direct it through the device. Combining these functions within one platform limits the need for separate optical components and supports controlled delivery, collection, or detection of light in compact bioengineering systems.
Material selection, structural arrangement, and the optical functions assigned to each component can influence how effectively a device focuses, shapes, or detects light. Alignment also matters because integrating several functions can improve alignment when the elements are manufactured or assembled as one platform. These choices affect suitability for miniaturized microscopes, sensors, and diagnostic systems.
Microfluidic features provide a way to handle biological samples within the same platform as optical components. Their integration can support devices that manipulate a sample while also directing light for measurement or detection. This combination is especially relevant to lab-on-a-chip systems and point-of-care diagnostics, where compact operation and simultaneous biological handling and optical analysis are valuable.
Size reduction comes from combining multiple optical functions and, in some designs, sample-handling features within one device. A single platform can incorporate focusing, light shaping, guiding, and detection-related functions rather than relying on separately positioned components. This arrangement supports compact microscopes, wearable sensors, implantable sensors, and other systems where space and alignment are important.
The overview identifies lithography, thin-film deposition, molding, and precision assembly as available fabrication approaches. The selected process can be matched to the device architecture, which may contain lenses, diffractive surfaces, waveguides, or microfluidic features. Together, these methods provide routes for manufacturing integrated platforms designed to shape, focus, or detect light around biological samples.
Bioengineering applications include miniaturized microscopes, wearable and implantable sensors, lab-on-a-chip systems, and point-of-care diagnostics. In these settings, integrated optical functions can improve sensitivity and alignment while reducing device size. The resulting platforms can support optical measurement of biological samples, and some can combine sample manipulation with measurement in the same compact system.