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The absorptive chiral metasurface shows evidence of giant nonlinear chiroptical effects, including chiral third harmonic generation, chiral saturated absorption, and chiral reverse saturable absorption. We finally demonstrate proof of…

Circular dichroism (CD) induced by spin angular momentum of light is vital to investigate the chirality of microscopic objects such as molecules, proteins and metamaterials. However, orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light failed to…

Resonant chiral dielectric metasurfaces can support circular dichroism exceeding that of natural materials, but their small dissipative losses simultaneously limit the maximization of circular dichroism, which inherently relies on…

The increasing need for efficient thermal management in nanoelectronics requires innovative thermal sensing solutions, as conventional sensors often exhibit nonlinear responses, low sensitivity, and complex calibration. We predict a…

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and fundamental in science, from particle physics to metamaterials.The most established technique of chiral discrimination - photoabsorption circular dichroism - relies on the magnetic properties of a…

The emergence of two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenide materials has sparked an intense activity in valleytronics since their valley information can be directly encoded and detected by using the spin angular momentum of light. For…

The occurrence of biological homochirality is attributed to symmetry breaking mechanisms which are still debatable1. Studies of symmetry breaking require tools for monitoring the population ratios of individual chiral nano-objects, such as…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-20 Eitam Vinegrad , Uri Hananel , Gil Markovich , Ori Cheshnovsky

We show that a small conducting object, such as a nanosphere or a nanoring, embedded into or placed in the vicinity of the two-dimensional electron liquid (2DEL) and subjected to a circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 S. O. Potashin , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , M. S. Shur

The chiral state of a molecule plays a crucial role in molecular recognition and biochemical reactions. Because of this and owing to the fact that most modern drugs are chiral, the sensitive and reliable detection of the chirality of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Luisa M. Kneer , Eva-Maria Roller , Lucas V. Besteiro , Robert Schreiber , Alexander O. Govorov , Tim Liedl

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, coupled to metal plasmonic nanocavities, have recently emerged as new platforms for strong light-matter interactions. These systems are expected to have nonlinear optical properties that will…

Chiral photonics opens new pathways to manipulate light-matter interactions and tailor the optical response of meta-surfaces and -materials by nanostructuring nontrivial patterns. Chirality of matter, such as that of molecules, and light,…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Oliver Mey , Arash Rahimi-Iman

Magneto-plasmonic nanostructures have emerged as promising candidates for advanced sensing applications. However, conventional fabrication methods, such as lithography and sputtering, often involve high costs and complex processes. This…

Fabrication of chiral assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles is a highly attractive and challenging task with promising applications in light emission, detection, and sensing. So far, primarily organic chiral templates have been used for…

It is shown that in nanoporous titanium dioxide films, sensitivity to atmospheric hydrogen exposure and electroforming can coexist and are interdependent. The devices work as conventional hydrogen sensors below a threshold electric field…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-06 M. Strungaru , M. Cerchez , S. Herbertz , T. Heinzel , M. El Achhab , K. Schierbaum

We introduce millimeter-wave silicon photonic crystal cavities as a versatile platform for the perturbative sensing of nanoscale materials. This dielectric-based platform is compatible with strong magnetic fields, opening avenues for…

Chiral molecule sensing is currently performed using chromatography, electrophoresis, enzymatic-assays, mass spectrometry, and chiroptical sensing techniques. Currently polarimetry is the only method having in-vivo sensing capabilities,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Swathi Padmanabhan , Jaya Prakash

Chiral metal halide perovskites have emerged as promising optoelectronic materials for emission and detection of circular polarized visible light. Despite chirality being realized by adding chiral organic cations or ligands, the chiroptical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-26 Sofia Apergi , Geert Brocks , Shuxia Tao

Twisted optical fibers are a promising platform for manipulating circularly polarized light and orbital angular momentum beams for applications such as nonlinear frequency conversion, optical communication, or chiral sensing. However,…

Hybrid mesoscale-structures that can combine dielectric optical resonances with plasmon-polaritons are of interest in chip-scale nano-optical communication and sensing. This experimental study shows how a fluorescent microsphere coupled to…

Plasmonic nanoparticles resonantly couple to and confine light below the diffraction limit. This mechanism has enabled a modern renaissance in optical materials, with potential applications ranging from sensing and circuitry to renewable…