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Touching the microworld with force-feedback optical tweezers.

Overview of attention for article published in Optics Express Online, June 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Touching the microworld with force-feedback optical tweezers.
Published in
Optics Express Online, June 2009
DOI 10.1364/oe.17.010259
Pubmed ID
Authors

Cécile Pacoret, Richard Bowman, Graham Gibson, Sinan Haliyo, David Carberry, Arvid Bergander, Stéphane Régnier, Miles Padgett

Abstract

Optical tweezers are a powerful tool for micromanipulation and measurement of picoNewton sized forces. However, conventional interfaces present difficulties as the user cannot feel the forces involved. We present an interface to optical tweezers, based around a low-cost commercial force feedback device. The different dynamics of the micro-world make intuitive force feedback a challenge. We propose a coupling method using an existing optical tweezers system and discuss stability and transparency. Our system allows the user to perceive real Brownian motion and viscosity, as well as forces exerted during manipulation of objects by a trapped bead.

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 69 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 7%
Italy 2 3%
United States 2 3%
Australia 1 1%
India 1 1%
Ireland 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
New Zealand 1 1%
Unknown 55 80%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 33%
Researcher 15 22%
Student > Master 8 12%
Professor 6 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 9%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 2 3%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 43 62%
Engineering 13 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 6%
Chemistry 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 5 7%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2019.
All research outputs
#5,340,533
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from Optics Express Online
#1,831
of 14,571 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,176
of 125,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Optics Express Online
#27
of 153 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,377,790 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14,571 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 153 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.