{"id":21,"date":"2015-09-16T00:06:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T00:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/emcleod\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2021-03-15T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:32:14","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We study the interaction of light with structures derived from nanoscale colloidal building blocks using a mixture of experiment, theory, and computation. Our research includes investigations into the fundamental optical properties of these materials, manipulation of nanoparticles using optical tweezers, assembly of nanostructured photonic metamaterials and superresolution devices, integration of nanophotonic and microphotonic systems, and sensing of nanoparticles and biomolecules using lensfree holographic microscopy. This research will enable better microscopes, smaller and lighter optical devices, and more sensitive biomedical sensors. Click on one of the images below for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/nanomanufacturing-using-optical-tweezers\/\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/OpticalTrappingAssembly-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"625\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/OpticalTrappingAssembly-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/?attachment_id=625\" class=\"wp-image-625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/OpticalTrappingAssembly-1.png 930w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/OpticalTrappingAssembly-1-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/OpticalTrappingAssembly-1-768x438.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\" style=\"font-size: 180%\">Nanomanufacturing Using Optical Tweezers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/lensfree-microscopy-sensing\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"636\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/AndyBeads3.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"496\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/AndyBeads3.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/andybeads3\/\" class=\"wp-image-496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/AndyBeads3.png 600w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/AndyBeads3-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\" style=\"font-size: 180%\">Lensfree Microscopy <br> &amp; Sensing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our past research involved <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/tunable-acoustic-gradient-index-lenses\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"658\">tunable acoustic gradient-index (TAG) lenses<\/a>, currently <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mitutoyo.eu\/web\/mitutoyo\/en\/mitutoyo\/TAGLENS\/TAGLENS\/index.xhtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sold by Mitutoyo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We study the interaction of light with structures derived from nanoscale colloidal building blocks using a mixture of experiment, theory, and computation. Our research includes investigations into the fundamental optical properties of these materials, manipulation of nanoparticles using optical tweezers, assembly of nanostructured photonic metamaterials and superresolution devices, integration of nanophotonic and microphotonic systems, and sensing of nanoparticles and biomolecules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/emcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}