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🔬🚧Building yet another microscope at Hofkens lab.
In the age of commercial microscopes, we scavenge our old setups and customize our own.
Exciting time ahead!
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Researchers demonstrate stable trapping of silicon nanoparticles within dark regions of optical standing waves using Mie resonances—a capability impossible with conventional silica particles, enabling novel nanoscale optical manipulation.

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Polymer encapsulation enables stable optical confinement of colloidal quantum dots with sub-20 nm position stability while preserving single-photon emission, demonstrating a practical platform for quantum manipulation and measurement of artificial atoms.

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ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences is hiring:
Postdoctoral position in advanced optical trapping within cells and biomolecular condensates

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Transition-metal dichalcogenides in dark optical traps achieve 3 orders of magnitude improved coherence times compared to conventional bright traps, enabling quantum experiments with larger, more stable particles and reduced photon recoil heating.

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#HelloWorld Bluesky account is set up, ready for new activities in 2025. Follow this account on novel optical trapping and manipulation techniques to biological problems. 🧪⚛️💡@optica.bsky.social

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Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, a team demonstrates a gradient-thickness-protected microbottle resonator that enables large-scale, stable optical trapping via whispering-gallery modes.
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Details: doi.org/10.1038/s41378-026-01167-7

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