Nature Nanotechnology, volume 16, issue 9, pages 970-974

Microscopic metavehicles powered and steered by embedded optical metasurfaces

Andrén Daniel ¹

Baranov Denis G ^{1, 2}

Jones Steven ¹

Volpe Giovanni ³

Verre Ruggero ¹

Käll Mikael ¹

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Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |

Center for Photonics and 2D Materials, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia |

Physics Department, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2021-07-22

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Journal: Nature Nanotechnology

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DOI: 10.1038/s41565-021-00941-0

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Condensed Matter Physics

General Materials Science

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Bioengineering

Biomedical Engineering

Abstract

Nanostructured dielectric metasurfaces offer unprecedented opportunities to manipulate light by imprinting an arbitrary phase gradient on an impinging wavefront1. This has resulted in the realization of a range of flat analogues to classical optical components, such as lenses, waveplates and axicons2–6. However, the change in linear and angular optical momentum7 associated with phase manipulation also results in previously unexploited forces and torques that act on the metasurface itself. Here we show that these optomechanical effects can be utilized to construct optical metavehicles—microscopic particles that can travel long distances under low-intensity plane-wave illumination while being steered by the polarization of the incident light. We demonstrate movement in complex patterns, self-correcting motion and an application as transport vehicles for microscopic cargoes, which include unicellular organisms. The abundance of possible optical metasurfaces attests to the prospect of developing a wide variety of metavehicles with specialized functional behaviours. Optomechanical effects enable the realization of optical metavehicles that can be manoeuvred across a surface in plane-wave illumination and steered by incident polarization.

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DO - 10.1038/s41565-021-00941-0

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TI - Microscopic metavehicles powered and steered by embedded optical metasurfaces

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AU - Andrén, Daniel

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AU - Jones, Steven

AU - Volpe, Giovanni

AU - Verre, Ruggero

AU - Käll, Mikael

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@article{2021_Andrén,

author = {Daniel Andrén and Denis G Baranov and Steven Jones and Giovanni Volpe and Ruggero Verre and Mikael Käll},

title = {Microscopic metavehicles powered and steered by embedded optical metasurfaces},

journal = {Nature Nanotechnology},

year = {2021},

volume = {16},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {jul},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41565-021-00941-0},

number = {9},

pages = {970--974},

doi = {10.1038/s41565-021-00941-0}

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