optical tweezers

instrument using a highly focused laser to provide an attractive or repulsive force (on the order of piconewtons) to hold and move microscopic dielectric objects similar to tweezers
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optical tweezers

Summary

optical tweezers ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (214 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • optical tweezers's image is recorded as Silica Nanosphere in Optical Tweezer.jpg[2].
  • tweezers is named after optical tweezers[3].
  • optical tweezers's subclass of is recorded as scientific instrument[4].
  • optical tweezers's Commons category is recorded as Optical tweezers[5].
  • optical tweezers's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D052898[6].
  • optical tweezers's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01rr_0[7].
  • optical tweezers's MeSH tree code is recorded as E05.650[8].
  • optical tweezers's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1883721[9].
  • optical tweezers's Quora topic ID is recorded as Optical-Tweezers[10].
  • optical tweezers's schematic is recorded as Generic Optical Tweezers Diagram-ru.svg[11].
  • optical tweezers's schematic is recorded as Optical tweezers and RNA-polymerase uk.gif[12].
  • optical tweezers's schematic is recorded as Generic Optical Tweezer Diagram.jpg[13].
  • optical tweezers's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 20198109[14].
  • optical tweezers's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C20198109[15].
  • optical tweezers's Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID is recorded as optical-tweezers[16].
  • optical tweezers's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 157261[17].
  • optical tweezers's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 538341[18].
  • optical tweezers's Language of Bindings ID is recorded as 2892[19].
  • optical tweezers's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as opticheskii-pintset-bf562b[20].
  • optical tweezers's ScholarGPS specialty ID is recorded as 67416225485503[21].

Why It Matters

optical tweezers ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (214 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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