Optical tweezers as a micromechanical tool for studying defects in 2D colloidal crystals
Published in In the proceedings of Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VIII, 2011
1) Vacancy-interstitial pairs can be long-lived but annihilate each other.
2) Tri-vacancies exhibit fluctuating behavior between bound dislocation pairs and local amorphous states.
3) These observations have implications for understanding the nature of 2D melting.