Photoinduced handedness switching in terahertz chiral metamolecules

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Shuang ^a,b   Zhou, Jiangfeng ^c   Park, Yong Shik ^a   Rho, Junsuk ^a   Singh, Ranjan ^c   Nam, Sunghyun ^c   Azad, Abul K ^c   Chen, Hou Tong ^c   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,d   Taylor, Antoinette J ^c   Zhang, Xiang ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHIRALITY; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HANDEDNESS SWITCHING; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAMOLECULE; MOLECULE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; POLARIZATION; STIMULUS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84864855881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1908     Document Type: Article

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