Research Director

Yoshito Tanaka

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Assistant Professor

Outline

I will create a nobel nanoscale motor by enhancing and controlling optical force exerted on metal nanostructures with designed surface plasmons. The tailored distributions of plasmonic forces beyond the diffraction limit of light make various motions of nanomachines, which can be externally controlled by the wavelength, polarization and phase of light. Furthermore, the localized surface plasmon sensors allow a unique nanomotor to be passively controlled by its environmental change.