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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Cubic-Phase Metasurface for Three-Dimensional Optical Manipulation.

Hsin Yu Kuo, Sunil Vyas, Cheng Hung Chu, Mu Ku Chen, Xu Shi, Hiroaki Misawa, Yu-Jung Lu, Yuan Luo, Din Ping Tsai

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Varifocal Meta-Lens for Multifunctional Focusing and Imaging.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  2. Optical sorting: past, present and future.Light, science & applications · 2025
    Review
  3. In Vivo Intelligent Fluorescence Endo-Microscopy by Varifocal Meta-Device and Deep Learning.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
    Article
  4. Plasmonic Metalens to Generate an Airy Beam.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Article
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Hsin Yu KuoDepartment of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Sunil VyasInstitute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10051, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-1787-6562
Cheng Hung ChuResearch Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
Mu Ku ChenDepartment of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6697-0398
Xu ShiResearch Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.
Hiroaki MisawaResearch Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.
Yu-Jung LuDepartment of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Yuan LuoInstitute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10051, Taiwan.
Din Ping TsaiDepartment of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0883-9906

Funding

Academia Sinica AS-CDA-108-M08Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province 2020B1515120073Hong Kong Polytechnic University 1.42.XX.9B0ZJapan Society for the Promotion of Science JP18H05205Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan MOST-108-2221-E-002-168-MY4Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan MOST-109-2112-M-001-043-MY3National Taiwan University 08HZT49001Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission SGDX2019081623281169University Grants Committee / Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China AoE/P-502/20
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The optical tweezer is one of the important techniques for contactless manipulation in biological research to control the motion of tiny objects. For three-dimensional (3D) optical manipulation, shaped light beams have been widely used. Typically, spatial light modulators are used for shaping light fields. However, they suffer from bulky size, narrow operational bandwidth, and limitations of incident polarization states. Here, a cubic-phase dielectric metasurface, composed of GaN circular nanopillars, is designed and fabricated to generate a polarization-independent vertically accelerated two-dimensional (2D) Airy beam in the visible region. The distinctive propagation characteristics of a vertically accelerated 2D Airy beam, including non-diffraction, self-acceleration, and self-healing, are experimentally demonstrated. An optical manipulation system equipped with a cubic-phase metasurface is designed to perform 3D manipulation of microscale particles. Due to the high-intensity gradients and the reciprocal propagation trajectory of Airy beams, particles can be laterally shifted and guided along the axial direction. In addition, the performance of optical trapping is quantitatively evaluated by experimentally measured trapping stiffness. Our metasurface has great potential to shape light for compact systems in the field of physics and biological applications.

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3D optical manipulationdielectric metasurfacevertically accelerated 2D Airy beam

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PMID34209225
PMCPMC8308168

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