Optothermal manipulation, which exploits photon-phonon conversion and matter migration under a light-controlled temperature gradient, is one of the emerging techniques. Elucidation of the underlying physics of opto-thermo-fluidics and rational engineering of fluidic environments are required to realize diverse optothermal manipulation functionalities.
This talk covers working principles, design concepts and applications of a series of our newly developed optothermal manipulation techniques, including bubble-pen lithography, opto-thermophoretic tweezers, opto-thermoelectric tweezers, optothermal assembly, and opto-thermoelectric printing.
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