In 2018, Arthur Ashkin was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 'for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics'. Optical tweezers have become a powerful tool in nanotechnology to ...

Arthur Ashkin has won half the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, while Gérard Mourou and Donna ... developed focused beams of light called optical tweezers to grab and move the minutest elements of ...

Researchers at IMDEA Nanociencia, led by Emilio Pérez and Borja Ibarra, have used optical tweezers to measure ... molecular muscles, etc. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Feringa, Sauvage and ...

Three scientists on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for inventing optical lasers ... Ashkin, 96, was honoured for his invention of "optical tweezers" that grab particles, atoms, viruses ...

“Due to their achievements the optical microscope can now peer into the nanoworld,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in awarding the 8 million crown (1.1 million dollar) prize.