Disruptive Forces in Metamaterial Tweezers for Trapping 20 nm Nanoparticles Based on Molecular Graphene Quantum Dots

Theodoros D. Bouloumis, Hao Zhao, Nikolaos Kokkinidis +4

In recent years, plasmonic optical tweezers have been used to trap nanoparticles and study interactions with their environment. An unavoidable challenge is the plasmonic heating du…