light to measure chirality of individual twisted-cross gold nanodimers. The chiral signatures,
based on different SHG response for the two CP components of incident light, are clearly
visible even with off-resonance excitation. The SHG responses of individual nanodimers are
found to vary by about a factor of five. The technique thus has very high sensitivity to the
nanoscale deformations of the structure. The chiral signatures of the dimers, however, are …