Enhancement of optical magnetic modes by controlling the handedness of symmetry breaking in fano metamolecules

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Bo ^a,b   Zhang, Yan ^a,b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

handedness; magnetic metamaterials; Magnetic mode; symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

DICHROISM; MAGNETISM; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETISMS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; HANDEDNESS; MAGNETIC METAMATERIALS; MAGNETIC MODES; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 84929378708     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2015.2427034     Document Type: Article

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