Abstract

As an effective tool for micro/nano-scale particle manipulation, plasmonic optical tweezers can be used to manipulate cells, DNA, and macromolecules. Related research is of great significance to the development of nanoscience. In this work, we investigated a sub-wavelength particle manipulation technique based on plasmonic optical tweezers. When the local plasmonic resonance is excited on the gold nanostructure arrays, the local electromagnetic field will be enhanced to generate a strong gradient force acting on nanoparticles, which could achieve particle sorting in sub-wavelength scale. On this basis, we explored the plasmonic enhancement effect of the sorting device and the corresponding optical force and optical potential well distributions. Additionally, the sorting effect of the sorting device was investigated in statistical methods, which showed that the sorting device could effectively sort particles of different diameters and refractive indices.

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