Acoustic tractor beam

Negative radiation forces act opposite to the direction of propagation, or net momentum, of a beam but have previously been challenging to definitively demonstrate. We report an experimental acoustic tractor beam generated by an ultrasonic array operating on macroscopic targets (>1??cm) to demons...

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Main Authors: Démoré, Christine E.M (Author), Dahl, Patrick M. (Author), Yang, Zhengyi (Author), Glynne-Jones, Peter (Author), Melzer, Andreas (Author), Cochran, Sandy (Author), MacDonald, Michael P. (Author), Spalding, Gabriel C. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2014-04-30.
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