Description: With contributions from some of the best in the field, this compendium presents important historical and current developments of optical tweezers in a range of scientific areas, from the manipulation of bacteria to the treatment of DNA.
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Optical Tweezers: Methods and Applications is a collection of landmark papers in the field of optical trapping and manipulation, edited by three experts of the field. ... Optical Tweezers gives a broad overview of the progress over the last four decades through a careful selection of the key articles that every specialist should read. Each section is introduced by a brief but compelling commentary, setting the papers in their historical context and delivering a wealth of background information and references, which can serve as a guide for the interested reader to explore the field further.
--Giovanni Volpe, Contemporary Physics, 52, 2011