What this work contributes
Demonstrates control of optical force sign using engineered silicon metaoptics.
Where the evidence stops
A standing-wave optical-force experiment is not a graphene switching result or isolated propulsion.
Keep the conditions with the result
- Conditions
- Counterpropagating 1550 nm beams; suspended silicon structures.
- Design use
- Use measured force experiments to design optical calibration and null configurations.
- Review access
- Publisher full text: relevant geometry, illumination and force-readout sections inspected.
- Publication
- Nature Communications 17, 1163
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41467-025-67928-6
Original source
Adeel Afridi; Bruno Melo; Nadine Meyer; Romain Quidant. Controlling the sign of optical forces using metaoptics. Nature Communications 17, 1163 (2026).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67928-6
How we use it
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