David Grier

Professor Of Physics; Director of the Center for Soft Matter Research

Education

Ph.D. 1989 (Physics), University of Michigan
B.S. 1984 (Physics), Harvard College

Areas of Research/Interest

Experimental condensed matter physics.

Publications

Projecting extended optical traps with shape-phase holography, Y. Roichman and D. G. Grier, Optics Letters, submitted for publication (2006).

Anomalous vibrational dispersion in holographically trapped colloidal arrays, M. Polin, D. G. Grier and S. R. Quake, Physical Review Letters, accepted for publication (2006).

Performance of optical traps with geometric aberrations, Y. Roichman, A. S. Waldron, E. Gardel and D. G. Grier, Applied Optics, in press (2005).

Manipulation and assembly of nanowires with holographic optical traps, R. Agarwal, K. Ladavac, Y. Roichman, G. Yu, C. M. Lieber and D. G. Grier, Optics Express 13, 8906-8912 (2005).

Robustness of holographic optical traps against phase scaling errors, S. Lee and D. G. Grier, Optics Express 13, 7458-7465 (2005).

Optimized holographic optical traps, M. Polin, K. Ladavac, S. Lee, Y. Roichman and D. G. Grier, Optics Express 13, 5831-5845 (2005).

Holographic assembly of quasicrystalline photonic heterostructures, Y. Roichman and D. G. Grier, Optics Express 13, 5434-5439 (2005).

One-dimensional optical thermal ratchets, S. Lee and D. G. Grier, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17, S3685-S3695 (2006).

Holographic optical trapping, D. G. Grier and Y. Roichman, Applied Optics 45, 880-887 (2006).

Flux reversal in a two-state symmetric optical thermal ratchet, S. Lee and D. G. Grier, Physical Review E 71, 060102(R) (2005).

Colloidal hydrodynamic coupling in concentric optical vortices, K. Ladavac and D. G. Grier, Europhysics Letters 70, 548-554 (2005).