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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Sequential trapping of single nanoparticles using a gold plasmonic nanohole array

Xue Han, Viet Giang Truong, Prince Sunil Thomas, and Síle Nic Chormaic

We have used a gold nanohole array to trap single polystyrene nanoparticles, with a mean diameter of 30 nm, into separated hot spots located at connecting nanoslot regions. A high trap stiffness of approximately [Math Processing Error] at a low-incident laser intensity of [Math Processing Error] at 980 nm was obtained. The experimental results were compared to the simulated trapping force, and a reasonable match was achieved. This plasmonic array is useful for lab-on-a-chip applications and has particular appeal for trapping multiple nanoparticles with predefined separations or arranged in patterns in order to study interactions between them.

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