Silicon nanofin grating as a miniature chirality-distinguishing beam-splitter

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Khorasaninejad, Mohammadreza ^a   Crozier, Kenneth B ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICA NANOPARTICLE; SKLICON NANOFIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

LINEAR PROGRAMING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POLARIZATION; SILICON; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; GRATING; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923307190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6386     Document Type: Article

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