Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Plasmon-driven nanowire actuators for on-chip manipulation

  • Shuangyi Linghu,
  • Zhaoqi Gu,
  • Jinsheng Lu,
  • Wei Fang,
  • Zongyin Yang,
  • Huakang Yu,
  • Zhiyuan Li,
  • Runlin Zhu,
  • Jian Peng,
  • Qiwen Zhan,
  • Songlin Zhuang,
  • Min Gu,
  • Fuxing Gu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20683-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Implementing metal nanowires in photonic circuits is challenging due to lack of suitable manipulation techniques. Here, the authors present an earthworm-like peristaltic crawling motion mechanism, based on surface plasmons and surface acoustic waves, and show on-chip manipulations of single nanowires.