Single Molecules Trapped by Dynamic Inhomogeneous Temperature Fields.
2015
We demonstrate a single molecule trapping concept that modulates the actual driving force of Brownian motion—the temperature. By spatially and temporally varying the temperature at a plasmonic nanostructure, thermodiffusive drifts are induced that are used to trap single nano-objects. A feedback controlled switching of local temperature fields allows us to confine the motion of a single DNA molecule for minutes and tailoring complex effective trapping potentials. This new type of thermophoretic microbeaker even provides control over a well-defined number of single molecules and is scalable to large arrays of trapping structures.
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