Electromagnetic manifestation of chirality in layer-by-layer chiral metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5239-5246

  Wu, Lin ^a,b   Yang, Zhen Yu ^a,b   Cheng, Yong Zhi ^b   Lu, Ze Qin ^a,b   Zhang, Peng ^a,b   Zhao, Ming ^a,b   Gong, Rong Zhou ^b   Yuan, Xiu Hua ^a,b   Zheng, Yu ^c   Duan, Ji An ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D STRUCTURE; ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSIONS; CHIRAL METAMATERIALS; CHIRAL METAMATERIALS (CMMS); LAYER-BY-LAYERS; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL;

DICHROISM;

EID: 84875129351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.005239     Document Type: Article

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