Slant-gap plasmonic nanoantennas for optical chirality engineering and circular dichroism enhancement

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7434-7445

  Lin, Daniel ^a   Huang, Jer Shing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICHROISM; ELECTRIC FIELDS; POLARIZATION;

CHIRAL ANALYSIS; CHIRAL MATTER; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; OPTICAL CHIRALITY; PLASMONIC NANOANTENNA; RESONANCE CONDITION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84898651794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.007434     Document Type: Article

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