Multicomponent structure assembly with optical tweezers

Jeffrey E. Melzer; Euan McLeod

doi:10.1117/12.2577719

5 March 2021 Multicomponent structure assembly with optical tweezers

Jeffrey E. Melzer, Euan McLeod

Proceedings Volume 11696, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XIV; 116960M (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577719
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

The optical tweezers platform provides an attractive approach for the fabrication of three-dimensional structures. Existing studies on optical tweezers assembly have mostly focused on the formation of small-scale structures consisting of a single type of dielectric building block. In this work, we demonstrate the potential of our automated optical positioning and linking (OPAL) platform that uses optical trapping for object manipulation and biochemical binding as a linking mechanism. We show a comprehensive analysis of system parameters and fabricate the largest microstructure built to date using this approach. Furthermore, we assemble multicomponent structures consisting of nanoscale building blocks.

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Jeffrey E. Melzer and Euan McLeod "Multicomponent structure assembly with optical tweezers", Proc. SPIE 11696, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XIV, 116960M (5 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577719

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