Circularly polarized light detection with hot electrons in chiral plasmonic metamaterials

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Wei ^a   Coppens, Zachary J ^a   Besteiro, Lucas V ^b   Wang, Wenyi ^a   Govorov, Alexander O ^a   Valentine, Jason ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; ELECTRON; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL METHOD; POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHIRAL PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; CHIRALITY; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; ELECTRON; ENGINEERING; HOT ELECTRON; LIGHT; MATERIALS; POLARIZATION;

EID: 84942362236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9379     Document Type: Article

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