System and method for holographic optical trap bonding
AssigneesGovernment of the United States of America, AS Represented By the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards & Technology and New York University
InventorsDavid G. GRIER, Kosta Ladavac, Joy M. Barker
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Abstract
A system and method for bonding and unbonding of small objects using small adhesive particles. The system and method includes the use of a plurality of optical tweezers to manipulate objects to be bonded and adhesive particles suspended in a fluid. The objects to be bonded (or unbonded) and the adhesive particles are positioned by lower power optical tweezers and then an intense bonding optical tweezer is activated to cause the adhesive to join the objects together (or used to unbond objects).
Claims16
A system comprising,
- a device providing a plurality of light beams;
- a fluid medium;
- a suspension of an object and a particle in the fluid medium;
- and
- a control system to manipulate the object and the particle to achieve a bonded state therebetween.
The system as defined in Claim I wherein the particle is selected from the group consisting of a plurality of adhesive particles, a particle to dissolve a bond, a chemically active particle, a thermally active particle, a biologically active particle, an optically active particle, a magnetically active particle and combinations thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.