Micromanipulation of Microtools Made of Su-8 by Integrated Optical Tweezers
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چکیده
We propose a novel cell manipulation method of Integrated Optical Tweezers (IOT) with microtools made of negative photoresist, SU-8 (MicroChem). This microtool is made by photolithography and hence it has complex shape. IOT is a novel optical tweezers integrating Time-Shared Scanning (TSS) [1] for high speed manipulation of a few objects and Generalized Phase Contrast (GPC) [2] for trapping a lot of objects. Here we propose IOT as the combined manipulation method and demonstrate manipulation of SU-8 microtools. This proposed noncontact manipulation method worked well as we expected.
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