Difference between revisions of "Resource list: Optical trapping"

General

• Ashkin, et. al. "Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles." Optics Letters Vol. 11, No. 5 May 1986

• Appleyard, et. al. Optical trapping for undergraduates. American Journal of Physics Volume 75, Issue 1 January 2007

Optical tweezer simulators

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/Optics/projects/tweezers/trapsimulation/

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/optical-tweezers

E. coli flagellar motor

• Richard M. Berry and Howard C. Berg. Absence of a barrier to backwards rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor demonstrated with optical tweezers PNAS December 23, 1997 vol. 94 no. 26 14433-14437

• M. Kara-Ivanova, M. Eisenbacha and S.R. Caplana Fluctuations in rotation rate of the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli Biophysical Journal, Volume 69, Issue 1, July 1995

• CheY chemotaxis regulator on EcoliWiki.

• Neuman, et. al. "Characterization of Photodamage to Escherichia coli in Optical Traps." Biophysical Journal, Volume 77 November 1999 2856–2863

• S. Tung, J. W. Kim. "Putting E. coli to Good Use — Using flagellar motors of bacteria to power biological nano devices," IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, March 2008

• Graeme Lowe Markus Meister & Howard C. Berg. Rapid rotation of flagellar bundles in swimming bacteria. Nature 325, 637 - 640 (1987) | doi:10.1038/325637a0