Using optical vortex to control the chirality of twisted metal nanostructures

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3645-3649

  Toyoda, Kohei ^a   Miyamoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Aoki, Nobuyuki ^a   Morita, Ryuji ^b   Omatsu, Takashige ^a,c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chirality; laser ablation; Metal nanoneedle; optical vortex; singular optics

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); CHIRAL METAL; CHIRAL SELECTIVITY; HELICITIES; IRRADIATED MATERIALS; LASER WAVELENGTH; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE IMAGING; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; OPTICAL VORTICES; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SINGULAR OPTICS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; LASER ABLATION; METALS; METAMATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VORTEX FLOW;

NANONEEDLES;

EID: 84863824434     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301347j     Document Type: Article

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