Remotely excited Raman optical activity using chiral plasmon propagation in Ag nanowires

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue NOVEMBER, 2013, Pages

  Sun, Mengtao ^a   Zhang, Zhenglong ^a   Wang, Peijie ^b   Li, Qiang ^a   Ma, Fengcai ^c   Xu, Hongxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag nanowires; Chiral plasmons; Plasmon propagation; Raman optical activity; Remote excitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887741284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2013.68     Document Type: Article

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