Light-driven selective assembly and healing of optical matter  (Conference Presentation)

Fan Nan; Zijie Yan

doi:10.1117/12.2529265

9 September 2019 Light-driven selective assembly and healing of optical matter (Conference Presentation)

Fan Nan, Zijie Yan

Proceedings Volume 11083, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVI; 1108326 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529265
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A system far from thermodynamic equilibrium is usually disordered yet ordered dissipative structures can still spontaneous form under certain conditions.1-2 The optical field provides a steady energy supply and enables a non-equilibrium dissipative state, where disorder-to-order transition occurs under anisotropic electrodynamic interactions. We find that a large number of Ag nanoparticles illuminated by a linearly polarized laser beam could self-assemble into partially ordered arrays, but they exhibited frequent structure transition between dimer chains and hexagonal nanoparticle lattices.3 In order to selective assembly of ordered lattice structures or dimer chains, a single Ag nanowire is illuminated to create a 3D interferometric optical field.4 The nanowire-guided self-assembly can be controlled by tuning the direction of linear polarization relative to the long-axis of a nanowire. The plasmonic nanowire can enhance the optical binding of nanoparticles both along and perpendicular to the laser polarization when the polarization is aligned at a specific angle. On the other hand, when specific dimer chains are perturbed and destabilized by another laser, their structures can self-heal after the perturbation is removed. Our observations suggest that light-driven self-organization of metal nanoparticles with strong optical binding interactions will provide new opportunities to discover new dissipative structures and build novel reconfigurable artificial nanostructures at mesoscale.

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Fan Nan and Zijie Yan "Light-driven selective assembly and healing of optical matter (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11083, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVI, 1108326 (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529265

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Nanoparticles

Nanowires

Polarization

Optical binding

Silver

Directed self assembly

Electrodynamics

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