A novel photonic crystal lattice is proposed for trapping a two-dimensional array of particles. The lattice is created by introducing a rectangular slot in each unit cell of the Suzuki-Phase lattice to enhance the light confinement of guided resonance modes. Large quality factors on the order of 10⁵ are predicted in the lattice. A significant decrease of the optical power required for optical trapping can be achieved compared to our previous design.

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Nat. Photonics

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Nature

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Opt. Express

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Phys. Rev. Lett.

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Rev. Sci. Instrum.

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Other

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• A. Taflove, Computational electrodynamics: the finite-difference time-domain method (Artech House, Boston, USA, 1995).
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