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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2006
David G. Grier, New York, NY (US);
Kosta Ladavac, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joy M. Barker, Albuquerque, NM (US);
David G. Grier, New York, NY (US);
Kosta Ladavac, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joy M. Barker, Albuquerque, NM (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC (US);
New York University, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for bonding and unbonding of small objects using small adhesive particles. The system and method includes the use of a plurality of optical tweezers to manipulate objects to be bonded and adhesive particles suspended in a fluid. The objects to be bonded (or unbonded) and the adhesive particles are positioned by lower power optical tweezers and then an intense bonding optical tweezer is activated to cause the adhesive to join the objects together (or used to unbond objects).