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Plasmonic trapping involves shining light onto a nanoscale metallic object. Incident photons excite localized electrons found at the surface of the metal. It is these excited electrons that form waves of energy, known as plasmons. Surface plasmons produce very strong and localized electromagnetic fields, which can trap particles even more strongly than a tightly focused laser beam.

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