Giant circular dichroism in individual carbon nanotubes induced by extrinsic chirality

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yokoyama, A ^a   Yoshida, M ^a   Ishii, A ^a   Kato, Y K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nanophysics; Optics; Photonics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHIRALITY; DICHROISM; OPTICS; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION;

DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; FIELD-INDUCED; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; NANOPHYSICS; OPTICAL WAVE VECTORS; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL;

STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84900309257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011005     Document Type: Article

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