New discovery improves use of optical tweezers
(WorldNews Sweden)

News: Dec 04, 2018 Illustration: Laura Perez Garcia This year`s Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for discoveries in laser physics, recognizes optical tweezers. Now researchers from the University of Gothenburg have developed a method that greatly simplifies and improves the use of optical tweezers. `The idea came to me during a visit to the National Autonomous University of Mexico last year. It turned out that the lab there already had all the data needed to prove that this new method worked,` says Giovanni Volpe, a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg. Optical tweezers were discovered in the late 1980s. They can be described as light beam fingers that can...