The Beginner's Guide to Chiral Plasmonics: Mostly Harmless Theory and the Design of Large‐Area Substrates

ESA Goerlitzer, AS Puri, JJ Moses… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral plasmonics is a fascinating research field that is attractive to scientists from diverse
backgrounds. Physicists study light–matter interactions, chemists seek ways to analyze …

Characterisation and manipulation of polarisation response in plasmonic and magneto-plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials

P Khan, G Brennan, J Lillis, SAM Tofail, N Liu, C Silien - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Optical properties of metal nanostructures, governed by the so-called localised surface
plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects, have invoked intensive investigations in recent times …

Universal chiral-plasmon-induced upward and downward transfer of circular dichroism to achiral molecules

PG Chen, H Gao, B Tang, W Jin, AL Rogach, D Lei - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electromagnetic chirality transfer represents an effective means of the nanoscale
manipulation of optical chirality. While most of the previous reports have exclusively focused …

Demonstration of extrinsic chirality in self-assembled asymmetric plasmonic metasurfaces and nanohole arrays

E Petronijevic, T Cesca, C Scian, G Mattei, RL Voti… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Chirality, the lack of mirror symmetry, can be mimicked in nanophotonics and plasmonics by
breaking the symmetry in light-nanostructure interaction. Here we report on versatile use of …

Diffracted beams from metasurfaces: high chiral detectivity by photothermal deflection technique

G Leahu, E Petronijevic, R Li Voti… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of difference in optical interactions between circularly polarized excitations of
opposite handedness (circular dichroism) are highly important for both natural and artificial …

Circular dichroism in a plasmonic array of elliptical nanoholes with square lattice

H Ali, E Petronijevic, G Pellegrini, C Sibilia… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Chiral properties of plasmonic metasurfaces, especially related to different absorption of left
and right circularly polarized light leading to circular dichroism (CD), are a research hot topic …

Rich near-infrared chiral behavior in diffractive metasurfaces

E Petronijevic, A Belardini, T Cesca, C Scian… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The mimicking of chiral effects at the nanoscale usually requires complex nanostructured
systems fabricated by using highly sophisticated techniques. Here, we demonstrate that low …

Achiral Magnetic Photonic Antenna as a Tunable Nanosource of Chiral Light

L Cui, X Yang, B Reynier, C Schwob, S Bidault… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sensitivity to molecular chirality is crucial for many fields, from biology and chemistry to the
pharmaceutical industry. By generating superchiral light, nanophotonics has brought …

Nanostructured materials for circular dichroism and chirality at the nanoscale: towards unconventional characterization

E Petronijevic, A Belardini, G Leahu, R Li Voti… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we review the last attempts to use nanostructured materials for the
enhancement of the chiro-optical effects at the nanoscale. Starting from the numerical …

Tunable circular dichroism through absorption in coupled optical modes of twisted triskelia nanostructures

J Rodríguez-Álvarez, A García-Martín… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We present a system consisting of two stacked chiral plasmonic nanoelements, so-called
triskelia, that exhibits a high degree of circular dichroism. The optical modes arising from the …