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Construction and Operation of a Light-driven Gold Nanorod Rotary Motor System
Chapters
- 00:04Title
- 00:48Circularly Polarized Optical Tweezers for Nanoparticle Rotation
- 03:05Measurement Instrumentation
- 04:46Experimental Procedure
- 06:57Results: Measurements of Intensity and Autocorrelation for a Trapped, Rotating Nanorod and Dark Field Spectroscopy for a Trapped Nanorod
- 08:17Conclusion
Plasmonic gold nanorods can be trapped in liquids and rotated at kHz frequencies using circularly-polarized optical tweezers. Introducing tools for Brownian dynamics analysis and light scatteringspectroscopy leads to a powerful system for research and application in numerous fields of science.
