The Photonic Force Microscope and Its Applications: measuring forces and torques at the nanoscale with applications to plasmonics, microfluidics and biology - Softcover

Volpe, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 383831137X ISBN 13: 9783838311371

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The ability of detecting forces and torques at the micro- and nano- scale is of fundamental importance. The photonic force microscope (PFM) had been employed to measure forces in the range of femto- to pico-Newton in many different fields with exciting applications in biophysics, thermodynamics of small systems, and colloidal physics. Here, after an introductive overview of a typical PFM setup, we discuss the three main aspects necessary to understand the PFM, i.e. optical trapping, Brownian motion in an optical trap, and position detection. In the second part of the book, we describe some applications of the PFM: the measurement of plasmon radiation forces, the photonic torque microscope and the measurement of the torque produced by a vortex light beam, the measurement of the characteristics of microscopic flows, and some applications with trapped cells.

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Giovanni Volpe received a master degree in telecommunicationengineering from Padova University, Italy, in 2004, and a doctor of philosophy inphysics from ICFO - The Instittute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain in2008. Dr. Volpe authored more than 30 technical journal and conference papers.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 383831137X
• ISBN 13: 9783838311371
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
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