Optical nanomanipulation on solid substrates via optothermally-gated photon nudging.

Jingang Li, Yaoran Liu, Linhan Lin, Mingsong Wang, Taizhi Jiang, Jianhe Guo, Hongru Ding, Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara, Yuji Inoue, Donglei Fan, Brian A Korgel, Yuebing Zheng

Nature communications 2019 Dec 12

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Constructing colloidal particles into functional nanostructures, materials, and devices is a promising yet challenging direction. Many optical techniques have been developed to trap, manipulate, assemble, and print colloidal particles from aqueous solutions into desired configurations on solid substrates. However, these techniques operated in liquid environments generally suffer from pattern collapses, Brownian motion, and challenges that come with reconfigurable assembly. Here, we develop an all-optical technique, termed optothermally-gated photon nudging (OPN), for the versatile manipulation and dynamic patterning of a variety of colloidal particles on a solid substrate at nanoscale accuracy. OPN takes advantage of a thin surfactant layer to optothermally modulate the particle-substrate interaction, which enables the manipulation of colloidal particles on solid substrates with optical scattering force. Along with in situ optical spectroscopy, our non-invasive and contactless nanomanipulation technique will find various applications in nanofabrication, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, and colloidal sciences.

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Jingang Li, Yaoran Liu, Linhan Lin, Mingsong Wang, Taizhi Jiang, Jianhe Guo, Hongru Ding, Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara, Yuji Inoue, Donglei Fan, Brian A Korgel, Yuebing Zheng. Optical nanomanipulation on solid substrates via optothermally-gated photon nudging. Nature communications. 2019 Dec 12;10(1):5672