Chirality and chiroptical effects in plasmonic nanostructures : fundamentals, recent progress, and outlook

Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 25(2013), 18 vom: 14. Mai, Seite 2517-34
1. Verfasser: Valev, Ventsislav K (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Baumberg, Jeremy J, Sibilia, Concita, Verbiest, Thierry
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2013
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Strong chiroptical effects recently reported result from the interaction of light with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Such nanostructures can be used to enhance the chiroptical response of chiral molecules and could also significantly increase the enantiomeric excess of direct asymmetric synthesis and catalysis. Moreover, in optical metamaterials, chirality leads to negative refractive index and all the promising applications thereof. In this Progress Report, we highlight four different strategies which have been used to achieve giant chiroptical effects in chiral nanostructures. These strategies consecutively highlight the importance of chirality in the nanostructures (for linear and nonlinear chiroptical effects), in the experimental setup and in the light itself. Because, in the future, manipulating chirality will play an important role, we present two examples of chiral switches. Whereas in the first one, switching the chirality of incoming light causes a reversal of the handedness in the nanostructures, in the second one, switching the handedness of the nanostructures causes a reversal in the chirality of outgoing light
Beschreibung:Date Completed 15.11.2013
Date Revised 30.09.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201205178