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List of works by Timo A. Nieminen

'Wiggler-Waggler': towards optical measurements of the complex shear modulus

-matrix calculation via discrete dipole approximation, point matching and exploiting symmetry

article published in 2009

16S rRNA targeted sandwich hybridization method for direct quantification of mycobacteria in soils

scientific article published on 19 April 2006

A constant torque micro-viscometer

A photon-driven micromotor can direct nerve fibre growth

Active rotational and translational microrheology beyond the linear spring regime

scientific article

Angular momentum of a strongly focused Gaussian beam

Antireflection coating for improved optical trapping

Approximate and exact modeling of optical trapping

Calculation and optical measurement of laser trapping forces on non-spherical particles

Calculation of optical trapping landscapes

Calculation of the T-matrix: general considerations and application of the point-matching method

Calibration of force detection for arbitrarily shaped particles in optical tweezers

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Calibration of nonspherical particles in optical tweezers using only position measurement

scientific article published in April 2013

Calibration of trap stiffness and viscoelasticity in polymer solutions

Collecting single molecules with conventional optical tweezers

scientific article published on 17 January 2007

Colloquium : Momentum of an electromagnetic wave in dielectric media

scientific article

Comment on “Geometric absorption of electromagnetic angular momentum”, C. Konz, G. Benford

article published in 2004

Comparison of T-matrix calculation methods for scattering by cylinders in optical tweezers

Computational modeling of optical tweezers

Computational modelling of optical tweezers with many degrees of freedom using dynamic simulation: cylinders, nanowires, and multiple particles

Constant power optical tweezers with controllable torque

scientific article

Constraining validity of the Minkowski energy-momentum tensor

article

Determination of motility forces on isolated chromosomes with laser tweezers

scientific article

Directing growth cones of optic axons growing with laser scissors and laser tweezers

Driving corrugated donut rotors with Laguerre-Gauss beams

scientific article

Energy, momentum and propagation of non-paraxial high-order Gaussian beams in the presence of an aperture

article published in 2015

Engineering optically driven micromachines

Equilibrium orientations and positions of non-spherical particles in optical traps

scientific article

Erratum: Colloquium : Momentum of an electromagnetic wave in dielectric media [Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 1197 (2007)]

scientific article (publication date: 31 March 2009)

Escape forces and trajectories in optical tweezers and their effect on calibration

FDFD/T-matrix hybrid method

Fabrication of microstructures for optically driven micromachines using two-photon photopolymerization of UV curing resins

Forces due to pulsed beams in optical tweezers: linear effects

scientific article published on March 2015

Forces in optical tweezers with radially and azimuthally polarized trapping beams

scientific article

Growth of crystals in optical tweezers

High-speed transverse and axial optical force measurements using amplitude filter masks

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Highly birefringent vaterite microspheres: production, characterization and applications for optical micromanipulation

scientific article

Impact of complex surfaces on biomicrorheological measurements using optical tweezers

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Improved optically driven microrotors

article published in 2008

Integrated optomechanical microelements

scientific article

Machine learning reveals complex behaviours in optically trapped particles

scholarly article by Isaac C D Lenton et al published 9 October 2020 in Machine Learning Science and Technology

Machine learning wall effects of eccentric spheres for convenient computation

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Mapping organelle motion reveals a vesicular conveyor belt spatially replenishing secretory vesicles in stimulated chromaffin cells

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Measurement of angular momentum flux in optical tweezers

Measurement of orbital angular momentum in optical tweezers

Measurement of the Index of Refraction of Single Microparticles

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Measurement of the total optical angular momentum transfer in optical tweezers

scientific article published in July 2006

Measuring local properties inside a cell‐mimicking structure using rotating optical tweezers

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Microrheology of microlitre samples: probed with rotating optical tweezers

Modelling optical micromachines and birefringent particles

Multipole expansion of strongly focussed laser beams

Non-steady-state extremely asymmetrical scattering of waves in periodic gratings

scientific article published in March 2002

Numerical modelling of optical trapping

article

Optical Trapping of Absorbing Particles

article

Optical Vortex Trapping and the Dynamics of Particle Rotation

article

Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles

scientific article published in Nature

Optical angular momentum transfer to microrotors fabricated by two-photon photopolymerization

Optical application and measurement of torque on microparticles of isotropic nonabsorbing material

article published in 2003

Optical force field mapping in microdevices

scientific article published on 22 September 2006

Optical measurement of microscopic torques

Optical measurement of torque exerted on an elongated object by a noncircular laser beam

article published in 2004

Optical micromanipulation of synthetic macromolecules

scholarly article published 31 August 2006

Optical microrheology of biopolymers

Optical microrheology using rotating laser-trapped particles

scientific article published on 14 May 2004

Optical microrotors: theory, design and fabrication

Optical torque and symmetry

Optical torque on microscopic objects

scientific article

Optical tweezers and paradoxes in electromagnetism

article

Optical tweezers computational toolbox

Optical tweezers toolbox: better, faster, cheaper; choose all three

Optical tweezers: Theory and modelling

Optical-trapping of particles in air using parabolic reflectors and a hollow laser beam

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Optically driven micromachines: progress and prospects

Optically trapped and driven paddle-wheel

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Orientation of biological cells using plane-polarized Gaussian beam optical tweezers

Orientation of optically trapped nonspherical birefringent particles

scientific article published on 21 February 2006

Physics of optical tweezers

scientific article

Picoliter viscometry using optically rotated particles

scientific article

Publisher's Note: Constraining validity of the Minkowski energy-momentum tensor [Phys. Rev. A79, 023813 (2009)]

Quantification of Mycobacterium avium subspecies in pig tissues by real-time quantitative PCR

scientific article published on March 22, 2013

RNA-based sandwich hybridisation method for detection of lactic acid bacteria in brewery samples

scientific article published on 6 December 2006

Refractometry of melanocyte cell nuclei using optical scatter images recorded by digital Fourier microscopy

scientific article published in July 2009

Refractometry of organosilica microspheres

scientific article published in March 2007

Rheological and Viscometric Methods

Rotating optical tweezers

Scattering of Sculpted Light in Intact Brain Tissue, with implications for Optogenetics.

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Spatially-resolved rotational microrheology with an optically-trapped sphere

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Synthesis and surface modification of birefringent vaterite microspheres

scientific article published in October 2009

T-matrix method for modelling optical tweezers

article published in 2011

The effect of Mie resonances on trapping in optical tweezers

scientific article

Torque transfer in optical tweezers due to orbital angular momentum

Towards crystallization using optical tweezers

Trapping microscopic particles with singular beams

Two controversies in classical electromagnetism

Two-photon polymerization process for optically driven micromachines

Use of shape induced birefringence for rotation in optical tweezers

Using a birefringent probe particle in variable polarisation optical tweezers to probe properties of biological materials

Vaterite twist: microrheology with AOM controlled optical tweezers

Visual guide to optical tweezers

Visualisation of Čerenkov radiation and the fields of a moving charge

Visualization of Čerenkov radiation and the fields of a moving charge

erratum: Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles

scientific article published in Nature