The quest for a real life tractor beam continues, with a 2-micrometer-thick silicon light bender. The silicon metasurface changes a solid beam into a triple spiral one that can pick up particles.
Tractor beams - the ability to trap and move objects using laser light - are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing ...
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