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Friday, April 25, 2014

Optical tweezers: Theory and modelling

Timo A. Nieminen, Nathaniel du Preez-Wilkinson, Alexander B. Stilgoe, Vincent L.Y. Loke, Ann A.M. Bui, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Since their development in the 1980s, optical tweezers have become a widely used and versatile tool in many fields. Outstanding applications include the quantitative measurement of forces in cell biology and biophysics. Computational modelling of optical tweezers is a valuable tool in support of experimental work, especially quantitative applications. We discuss the theory, and the theoretical and computational modelling of optical tweezers.

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