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SUBMITTER: Jeffries GD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2519128 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nano letters 20070201 2
Single-cell nanosurgery and the ability to manipulate nanometer-sized subcellular structures with optical tweezers has widespread applications in biology but so far has been limited by difficulties in maintaining the functionality of the transported subcellular organelles. This difficulty arises because of the propensity of optical tweezers to photodamage the trapped object. To address this issue, this paper describes the use of a polarization-shaped optical vortex trap, which exerts less photod ...[more]