Dual and chiral objects for optical activity in general scattering directions

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 376-384

  Fernandez Corbaton, Ivan ^a   Fruhnert, Martin ^b   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

artificial optical activity; chirality; electromagnetic duality symmetry; helicity; metamaterials

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; METAMATERIALS;

ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; HELICITIES; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; SCATTERED PLANE WAVE; SCATTERING DIRECTION; SPATIAL INVERSION SYMMETRY; UNIT CELLS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 84925589012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500419a     Document Type: Article

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