Nonreciprocal plasmonics enables giant enhancement of thin-film Faraday rotation

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chin, Jessie Yao ^a   Steinle, Tobias ^a   Wehlus, Thomas ^b   Dregely, Daniel ^a   Weiss, Thomas ^a   Belotelov, Vladimir I ^c   Stritzker, Bernd ^b   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMA; POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; FARADAY ROTATION; FILM; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; POLARIMETRY; ROTATION;

EID: 84875820841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2609     Document Type: Article

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