Optical tweezers, which earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, are a powerful tool used to manipulate microscopic ...

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 ...

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.