Researchers model macroscale plasmonic convection to control fluid and particle motion
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 12:23
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers have developed a new theoretical model that explains macroscale fluid convection induced by plasmonic (metal) nanostructures. This work is the first to establish both theoretically and experimentally that micron/s fluid velocities can be generated using a plasmonic architecture, and provides important insight into the flows affecting particle dynamics in plasmonic optical trapping experiments.