A quantum chemical approach to the design of chiral negative index materials

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5730-5741

  Baev, Alexander ^a   Samoc, Marek ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a   Krykunov, Mykhaylo ^a   Autschbach, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INCLUSIONS; MONOMERS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANOMETALLICS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CHIRAL POLYMERS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX MATERIALS (NIM); PRISTINE MATERIALS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 34247868229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005730     Document Type: Article

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