Plasmonically enhanced chiral optical fields and forces in achiral split ring resonators

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 361-368

  Alizadeh, M H ^a,b   Reinhard, Björn M ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

bianisotropy; chiral forces; circular dichroism; metamaterials; optical chirality

Indexed keywords

DICHROISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLASMONS; RESONATORS; RING GAGES;

BIANISOTROPY; CHIRAL FORCES; DOUBLE SPLIT RINGS; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLINGS; OPTICAL CHIRALITY; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SPLIT RING RESONATOR;

CHIRALITY;

EID: 84925688472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500399k     Document Type: Article

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