Dr Alexander Stilgoe
Research Fellow
School of Mathematics and Physics
Affiliate of ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)
ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems
+61 7 334 69935
Physics Annexe (06), Room 430
Teaching and learning
Dr Stillgoe teaches 1st year physics and 2nd year quantum physics.
Book Chapters
Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Bui, Ann A.M., Zhang, Shu, Houillot, Antoine, Carberry, David, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2017). Optically driven rotating micromachines. Light robotics-structure-mediated nanobiophotonics. (pp. 99-128) edited by Jesper Glückstad and Darwin Palima. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-7020-7096-9.00004-5
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Preece, Darryl, Bui, Ann and Nieminen, Timo A. (2015). Optical forces, trapping and manipulation. Photonics: Scientific foundations, technology and applications. (pp. 287-339) edited by David L. Andrews. Hoboken, New Jersey, United States: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781119011781.ch7
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Asavei, Theodor, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L. Y., Vogel, Robert, Nieminen, Timo A. and Heckenberg, Norman R. (2013). Design of optically driven microrotors. Optical Nano and Micro Actuator Technology. (pp. 277-306) edited by George K . Knopf and Yukitoshi Otani. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/b13892
Journal Articles
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Watson, Mark L., Gomez-Godinez, Veronica, Berns, Michael W., Preece, Daryl and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2024). Shining Light in Mechanobiology: Optical Tweezers, Scissors, and Beyond. ACS Photonics, 11 (3), 917-940. doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00064
Stilgoe, Alexander, Kashchuk, Anatolii, Balanant, Marie Anne, Santangelo, Deborah, Nieminen, Timo, Sauret, Emilie, flower, robert and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2024). Tired and stressed: direct holographicquasi-static stretching of aging echinocytes and discocytes in plasma using optical tweezers. Biomedical Optics Express, 15 (2), 656-671. doi: 10.1364/boe.504779
Volpe, Giovanni, Marago, Onofrio M, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Pesce, Giuseppe, Stilgoe, Alexander, Volpe, Giorgio, Tkachenko, Georgiy, Truong, Viet Giang, Nic Chormaic, Sile, Kalantarifard, Fatemeh, Elahi, Parviz, Kall, Mikael, Callegari, Agnese, Marqués, Manuel, Neves, Antonio, Saija, Rosalba, Beck, Paul, Eismann, Jörg, Banzer, Peter, Fernandes, Thales, Pedaci, Francesco, Bowen, Warwick, Roy, Basudev, Thalhammer, Gregor, Ritsch-Marte, Monika, Perez Garcia, Laura, Arzola, Alejandro, Perez Castillo, Isaac, Argun, Aykut ... Swartzlander, Grover A (2023). Roadmap for Optical Tweezers 2023. Journal of Physics: Photonics, 5 (2) 022501, 1-135. doi: 10.1088/2515-7647/acb57b
Nieminen, Timo A., Watson, Mark Liam, Loke, Vincent L. Y., Stilgoe, Alexander and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2022). Spin–orbit interaction in non-paraxial Gaussian beams and the spin-only measurement of optical torque. Journal of Optics, 24 (12) 124001, 1-10. doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac9c6e
Armstrong, D. J., Stilgoe, A. B., Nieminen, T. A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2022). Improved two-photon photopolymerisation and optical trapping with aberration-corrected structured light. Frontiers in Nanotechnology, 4 998656, 1-12. doi: 10.3389/fnano.2022.998656
Watson, Mark L., Brown, Darren L., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Stow, Jennifer L. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2022). Rotational optical tweezers for active microrheometry within living cells. Optica, 9 (9), 1066-1072. doi: 10.1364/optica.468713
Midtvedt, Daniel, Mylnikov, Vasilii, Stilgoe, Alexander, Käll, Mikael, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Volpe, Giovanni (2022). Deep learning in light-matter interactions. Nanophotonics, 11 (14), 3189-3214. doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0197
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2022). Controlled transfer of transverse orbital angular momentum to optically trapped birefringent microparticles. Nature Photonics, 16 (5), 346-351. doi: 10.1038/s41566-022-00983-3
Stilgoe, Alexander and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2021). Wave characterisation and aberration correction using hybrid direct search. Journal of Optics, 23 (8) 085602, 1-12. doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac094d
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Armstrong, Declan J. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2021). Enhanced signal-to-noise and fast calibration of optical tweezers using single trapping events. Micromachines, 12 (5) 570, 1-12. doi: 10.3390/mi12050570
Madsen, Lars S., Waleed, Muhammad, Casacio, Catxere A., Terrasson, Alex, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Taylor, Michael A. and Bowen, Warwick P. (2021). Ultrafast viscosity measurement with ballistic optical tweezers. Nature Photonics, 15 (5), 386-392. doi: 10.1038/s41566-021-00798-8
Gauthier, Guillaume, Bell, Thomas A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Baker, Mark, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Neely, Tyler W. (2021). Dynamic high-resolution optical trapping of ultracold atoms. Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 70, 1-101. doi: 10.1016/bs.aamop.2021.04.001
Jones, Steven, Andrén, Daniel, Antosiewicz, Tomasz J., Stilgoe, Alexander, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Käll, Mikael (2020). Strong transient flows generated by thermoplasmonic bubble nucleation. ACS Nano, 14 (12), 17468-17475. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07763
Armstrong, Declan J., Nieminen, Timo A., Favre-Bulle, Itia, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Lenton, Isaac C. D., Schembri, Mark A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). Optical force measurements illuminate dynamics of Escherichia coli in viscous media. Frontiers in Physics, 8 575732. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2020.575732
Lenton, Isaac Christopher David, Volpe, Giovanni, Stilgoe, Alexander, Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). Machine learning reveals complex behaviours in optically trapped particles. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 1 (4) abae76, 045009. doi: 10.1088/2632-2153/abae76
Lenton, Isaac C.D., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). OTSLM toolbox for structured light methods. Computer Physics Communications, 253 107199. doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107199
Armstrong, Declan J., Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Lenton, Isaac C. D. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). Swimming force and behavior of optically trapped micro-organisms. Optica, 7 (8), 989-994. doi: 10.1364/optica.394232
Lenton, Isaac C. D., Armstrong, Declan J., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2019). Orientation of swimming cells with annular beam optical tweezers. Optics Communications, 459 124864, 124864. doi: 10.1016/j.optcom.2019.124864
Pan, Yong-Le, Kalume, Aimable, Lenton, Isaac C. D., Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alex B., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Beresnev, Leonid A., Wang, Chuji and Santarpia, Joshua L. (2019). Optical-trapping of particles in air using parabolic reflectors and a hollow laser beam. Optics Express, 27 (23), 33061-33069. doi: 10.1364/oe.27.033061
Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Scott, Ethan K. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2019). Optical trapping in vivo: theory, practice, and applications. Nanophotonics, 8 (6), 1023-1040. doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2019-0055
Gibson, Lachlan J., Zhang, Shu, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2019). Machine learning wall effects of eccentric spheres for convenient computation. Physical Review E, 99 (4) 043304, 043304. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.043304
Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Nieminen, Timo A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2019). High-speed transverse and axial optical force measurements using amplitude filter masks. Optics Express, 27 (7), 10034-10049. doi: 10.1364/OE.27.010034
Zhang, Shu, Gibson, Lachlan J., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2019). Measuring local properties inside a cell-mimicking structure using rotating optical tweezers. Journal of Biophotonics, 12 (7) e201900022, e201900022. doi: 10.1002/jbio.201900022
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L. Y., Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2019). Microscope images of strongly scattering objects via vectorial transfer matrices: modeling and an experimental verification. Physical Review a, 99 (1) 013818. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013818
Bui, Ann A. M., Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Balanant, Marie Anne, Nieminen, Timo A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2018). Calibration of force detection for arbitrarily shaped particles in optical tweezers. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 10798, 10798. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28876-y
Favre-Bulle, I. A., Zhang, S., Kashchuk, A. V., Lenton, I. C.D., Gibson, L. J., Stilgoe, A. B., Nieminen, T. A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2018). Optical tweezers bring micromachines to biology. Optics and Photonics News, 29 (4), 40-47.
Zhang, Shu, Gibson, Lachlan J, Stilgoe, Alexander B, Nieminen, Timo A and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2017). Impact of complex surfaces on biomicrorheological measurements using optical tweezers. Lab on a chip, 18 (2), 315-322. doi: 10.1039/c7lc01176h
Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Scott, Ethan K. (2017). Optical trapping of otoliths drives vestibular behaviours in larval zebrafish. Nature Communications, 8 (1) 630, 630. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00713-2
Zhang, Shu, Gibson, Lachlan J., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2017). Erratum: Ultrasensitive rotating photonic probes for complex biological systems (vol 4, pg 1103, 2017). Optica, 4 (11), 1372-1372. doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.001372
Zhang, Shu, Gibson, Lachlan J., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2017). Ultrasensitive rotating photonic probes for complex biological systems. Optica, 4 (9), 1103-1108. doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.001103
Gibson, Lachlan J., Zhang, Shu, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2017). Active rotational and translational microrheology beyond the linear spring regime. Physical Review E, 95 (4) 042608, 042608. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.042608
Lenton, Isaac C. D., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Nieminen, Timo A. (2017). Visual guide to optical tweezers. European Journal of Physics, 38 (3) 034009, 034009. doi: 10.1088/1361-6404/aa6271
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Forbes, Andrew, Berry, M. V., Dennis, M. R., Andrews, David L., Mansuripur, Masud, Denz, Cornelia, Alpmann, Christina, Banzer, Peter, Bauer, Thomas, Karimi, Ebrahim, Marrucci, Lorenzo, Padgett, Miles, Ritsch-Marte, Monika, Litchinitser, Natalia M., Bigelow, Nicholas P., Rosales-Guzman, C., Belmonte, A., Torres, J. P., Neely, Tyler W., Baker, Mark, Gordon, Reuven, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Romero, Jacquiline, White, Andrew G., Fickler, Robert, Willner, Alan E., Xie, Guodong, McMorran, Benjamin and Weiner, Andrew M. (2017). Roadmap on structured light. Journal of Optics, 19 (1) 013001, 013001. doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/19/1/013001
Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Lenton, Isaac C. D., Gibson, Lachlan J., Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Zhang, Shu, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Nieminen, Timo A. (2016). Theory and practice of simulation of optical tweezers. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 195, 66-75. doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.12.026
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Preece, Daryl and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2016). An interpretation and guide to single-pass beam shaping methods using SLMs and DMDs. Journal of Optics, 18 (6) 065609, 065609. doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/18/6/065609
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2015). Energy, momentum and propagation of non-paraxial high-order Gaussian beams in the presence of an aperture. Journal of Optics (United Kingdom), 17 (12) 125601, 125601.1-125601.12. doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/17/12/125601
Taylor, Michael A., Waleed, Muhammad., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina. and Bowen, Warwick P. (2015). Enhanced optical trapping via structured scattering. Nature Photonics, 9 (10), 669-673. doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.160
du Preez-Wilkinson, Nathaniel, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Alzaidi, Thuraya, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Nieminen, Timo A. (2015). Forces due to pulsed beams in optical tweezers: linear effects. Optics Express, 23 (6), 7190-7208. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.007190
Sadafi, M. H., Jahn, I., Stilgoe, A. B. and Hooman, K. (2015). A theoretical model with experimental verification for heat and mass transfer of saline water droplets. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 81, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.10.005
Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Khatibzadeh, Nima, Nieminen, Timo A., Berns, Michael W. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2015). Escape forces and trajectories in optical tweezers and their effect on calibration. Optics Express, 23 (19), 24317-24330. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.024317
Khatibzadeh, Nima, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Bui, Ann A. M., Rocha, Yesenia, Cruz, Gladys M., Loke, Vince, Shi, Linda Z., Nieminen, Timo A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Berns, Michael W. (2014). Determination of motility forces on isolated chromosomes with laser tweezers. Scientific Reports, 4 (6866) 6866, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/srep06866
Nieminen, Timo A., Du Preez-Wilkinson, Nathaniel, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L.Y., Bui, Ann A.M. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2014). Optical tweezers: theory and modelling. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 146, 59-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.04.003
Qi, Xiaoqiong, Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L. Y. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2014). Comparison of T-matrix calculation methods for scattering by cylinders in optical tweezers. Optics Letters, 39 (16), 4827-4830. doi: 10.1364/OL.39.004827
Loke, Vincent L. Y., Asavei, Theodor, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2014). Driving corrugated donut rotors with Laguerre-Gauss beams. Optics Express, 22 (16), 19692-19706. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.019692
Sadafi, M. H., Jahn, I., Stilgoe, A. B. and Hooman, K. (2014). Theoretical and experimental studies on a solid containing water droplet. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 78, 25-33. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.06.064
Asavei, Theodor, Nieminen, Timo A., Loke, Vincent L. Y., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Bowman, Richard, Preece, Daryl, Padgett, Miles J., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2013). Optically trapped and driven paddle-wheel. New Journal of Physics, 15 (063016) 063016, 1-17. doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/6/063016
Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2013). Calibration of nonspherical particles in optical tweezers using only position measurement. Optics Letters, 38 (8), 1244-1246. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.001244
Cao, Yongyin, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Chen, Lixue, Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2012). Equilibrium orientations and positions of non-spherical particles in optical traps. Optics Express, 20 (12), 12987-12996. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.012987
Stilgoe, A. B., Heckenberg, N. R., Nieminen, T. A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H. (2011). Phase-transition-like properties of double-beam optical tweezers. Physical Review Letters, 107 (24) 248101, 248101.1-248101.4. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.248101
Nieminen, Timo A., Loke, Vincent L. Y., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2011). T-matrix method for modelling optical tweezers. Journal of Modern Optics, 58 (5-6), 528-544. doi: 10.1080/09500340.2010.528565
Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L. Y., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina R. (2009). The effect of Mie resonances on trapping in optical tweezers: Reply. Optics express, 17 (4), 2661-2662. doi: 10.1364/OE.17.002661
Funk, Maren, Parkin, Simon J., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2009). Constant power optical tweezers with controllable torque. Optics Letters, 34 (2), 139-141. doi: 10.1364/OL.34.000139
Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2008). Angular momentum of a strongly focused Gaussian beam. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 10 (11) 115005, 115005-1-115005-6. doi: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/11/115005
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo A., Knöener, Gregor, Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2008). The effect of Mie resonances on trapping in optical tweezers. Optics Express, 16 (19), 15039-15051. doi: 10.1364/OE.16.015039
Nieminen, Timo A., Vincent Loke, Alexander Stilgoe, Gregor Knoener, Agatha Branczyk, Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2007). Optical tweezers computational toolbox. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 9 (8) S12, S196-S203. doi: 10.1088/1464-4258/9/8/S12
Conference Papers
Watson, Mark L., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Favre-Bulle, Itia A., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2023). Sensing inertia with rotational optical tweezers. SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA United States, 20-25 August 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2677236
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Watson, Mark L., Favre-Bulle, Itia, Grant, Patrick, Nieminen, Timo A. and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2023). Optical tweezers in mechanobiology. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XX: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA United States, 20-25 August 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2682972
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Gillies, Naran and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2023). Vector beam shaping for transverse angular momentum transfer. Complex Light and Optical Forces XVII, San Francisco, CA United States, 28 January - 3 February 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.2657224
Armstrong, Declan J., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Nieminen, Timo A. and Stilgoe, Alexander (2023). Aberration corrected structured light for in-house fabrication of functional micro-structures. SPIE OPTO, San Francisco, CA United States, 28 January - 3 February 2023. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2657795
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Armstrong, Declan, Watson, Mark, Favre-Bulle, Itia, Nieminen, Timo and Stilgoe, Alexander B. (2022). Optically driven nano and micromachines in optical tweezers. SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, San Diego, CA United States, 21-26 August 2022. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2639995
Lenton, Isaac C., Nieminen, Timo A., Reece, Peter J., Stilgoe, Alexander B. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). Direct Force Measurement with Reflective and Conductive Particles in Optical Tweezers. 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO PR 2020), Sydney, NSW Australia, 3–5 August 2020. Washington, DC United States: Optical Society of America. doi: 10.1364/CLEOPR.2020.C12E_1
Lenton, Isaac C. D., Stilgoe, Alex B., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2020). Understanding particle trajectories by mapping optical force vortices. Complex Light and Optical Forces XIV, San Francisco, CA, United States, 1-6 February 2020. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2550418
Lenton, Isaac C. D., Armstrong, Declan, Calvert-Lane, Jackson, Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2018). Measuring the motility and drag forces acting on biological particles using optical tweezers. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XV 2018, San Diego, CA, United States, 19-23 August 2018. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2324117
Lenton, Isaac C. D., Bui, Ann A. M., Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2018). Optical tweezers toolbox: full dynamics simulations for particles of all sizes. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XV 2018, San Diego, CA, United States, 19-23 August 2018. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2324120
Kashchuk, Anatolii V., Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Carberry, David M., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina H. (2016). Measurements of particle-wall interaction forces using simultaneous position and force detection (Conference Presentation). Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIII, San Diego, CA, United States, 28 August-1 September 2016. BELLINGHAM: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2236419
Nieminen, Timo A., du Preez-Wilkinson, Nathaniel, Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Loke, Vincent L. Y. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2015). Theory and practice of computational modeling and simulation of optical tweezers. Optical Trapping Applications, OTA 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 12-15 April 2015. Washington, DC, United States: OSA - The Optical Society. doi: 10.1364/OTA.2015.OtM4E.5
Waleed, Muhammad, Taylor, Michael, Stilgoe, Alexander, Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Bowen, Warwick (2015). Enhanced optical trapping via structured scattering. Frontiers in Optics 2015, FIO 2015, San Jose, CA, United States, 18- 22 October 2015. Washington, DC, United States: OSA - The Optical Society. doi: 10.1364/FIO.2015.FW6B.4
Khatibzadeh, Nima, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Bui, Ann A. M., Rocha, Yesenia, Cruz, Gladys, Nieminen, Timo A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Berns, Michael W. (2014). Optical trapping of isolated mammalian chromosomes. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, San Diego, CA., United States, 17-21 August 2014. Bellingham, WA, United States: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.2064367
Sadafi, M. H., Jahn, I., Stilgoe, A. B. and Hooman, K. (2014). An investigation of evaporation from single saline water droplets: experimental and theoretical approaches. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 8-11 December 2014. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: RMIT University.
Bui, Ann A. M., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Khatibzadeh, Nima, Nieminen, Timo A., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina and Berns, Michael W. (2014). Optical tweezers escape forces. Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, San Diego, CA United States, 17-21 August 2014. Bellingham, WA United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.2062805
Cao, Yongyin, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Stroet, Martin, Loke, Vincent L. Y., Chen, Lixue, Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2012). Computational modelling of optical tweezers with many degrees of freedom using dynamic simulation: cylinders, nanowires, and multiple particles. Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation IX, San Diego, United States, 12-16 August 2012. Bellingham, WA, United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.930137
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Mallon, Michael J., Cao, Yongyin, Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2012). Optical tweezers toolbox: better, faster, cheaper; choose all three. Conference on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation IX, San Diego, United States, 12-16 August 2012. Bellingham, WA, United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.929365
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Asavei, Theodor, Preece, Daryl, Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Nieminen, Timo A. (2011). Measurement of angular momentum flux in optical tweezers. Conference on Complex Light and Optical Forces V, San Francisco, CA, United States, 26-27 January 2011. Bellingham, WA, United States: S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.886221
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nguyen, Lan T. P., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2011). Thermodynamics of optical tweezers. International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC 2011 and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011, Sydney, NSW Australia, 28 August - 1 September 2011. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6194164
Nieminen, Timo A., Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2011). Not just energy, but momentum and angular momentum too: Mechanical effects in scattering. Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference: ELS XIII 2011, Taormina, Italy, 26-30 September 2011. Messina, Italy: Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti. doi: 10.1478/C1V89S1P010
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Heckenberg, Norman R., Nieminen, Timo A. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2011). Stability, scaling and temperature in double-well optical tweezers. International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC 2011 and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011, Sydney, NSW Australia, 28 August - 1 September 2011. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193985
Nieminen, Timo A., Alexander Stilgoe, Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2010). Approximate and exact modeling of optical trapping. Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VII, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., 1-5 August, 2010. United States of America: SPIE. doi: 10.1117/12.861880
Stilgoe, Alexander B., Nieminen, Timo, Heckenberg, Norman R. and Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina (2009). To hop or not to hop-that is the question. ACOLS ACOFT 09, The University of Adelaide, 29/11/09 - 3/12/09. South Australia: The University of Adelaide.
Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, Asavei, Theodor, Parkin, Simon, Stilgoe, Alex, Loke, Vince, Nieminen, Timo and Heckenberg, Norman (2008). Can optically driven micromachines be useful in biomedicine? Optical tweezers at work. Asia Optical Fiber Communication and Optoelectronic Exposition and Conference, AOE 2008, Shanghai, China, 30 October - 2 November 2008. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E.
Thesis
Stilgoe, Alexander B. E. (2011). Dynamic properties of optical tweezers. PhD Thesis, School of Mathematics & Physics, The University of Queensland.