Khan, Manas and Sood, AK and Mohanty, SK and Gupta, PK and Arabale, Girish V and Vijaymohanan, K and Rao, CNR (2006) Optical trapping and transportation of carbon nanotubes made easy by decorating with palladium. In: Optics Express, 14 (1). pp. 424-429.
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Abstract
Individual carbon nanotubes being substantially smaller than the wavelength of light, are not much responsive to optical manipulation.Here we demonstrate how decorating single-walled carbon nanotubes with palladium particles makes optical trapping and manipulation easier. Palladium decorated nanotubes (Pd/SWNTs) have higher effective dielectric constant and are trapped at much lower laser power level with greater ease.In addition, we report the transportation of Pd/SWNTs using an asymmetric line trap. Using this method carbon nanotubes can be transported in any desired direction with high transportation speed.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Optics Express |
Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
Additional Information: | Copyright for this article belongs to Optical Society of America. |
Keywords: | Optical fabrication; Trapping |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2006 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:24 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/5736 |
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