Schematic of optical levitation with metalens (IMAGE)

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Schematic of optical levitation with metalens

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Schematic of optically levitating a nanoparticle with a metalens in a vacuum. The metalens focuses a laser beam to create chip-based optical tweezers.

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Kunhong Shen, Purdue University

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