Tailoring enhanced optical chirality: Design principles for chiral plasmonic nanostructures

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Schäferling, Martin ^a   Dregely, Daniel ^a   Hentschel, Mario ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Optics; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL CHIRALITY; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICS; PLASMONS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84870475014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031010     Document Type: Article

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