World's Tiniest Tweezers Grab Nanoparticles Using Nothing But Light

World's Tiniest Tweezers Grab Nanoparticles Using Nothing But Light

When you’re working with tiny nanoparticles, you need extremely delicate tools. Like, say, tweezers that can manipulate particles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair without physically touching them. That’s exactly what researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences have come up with: optical nanotweezers that use light to move tiny particles in three dimensions. It’s not sci-fi anymore.

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