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We present the new planar extrinsic chirality metamaterial (ECM) design that manifests giant circular dichroism (CD) in the visible spectrum range rather than usual near-infrared and terahertz range. Effects of incident beam angles and…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-21 Seoungjun Lee , Zengbo Wang , Cheng Feng , Jiao Jiao , Ashfaq Khan , Lin Li

Polarization-dependent photon spectroscopy (dichroism) using signal-enhancing superchiral beams is shown to be sensitive to magnetic properties of the sample, whereas previous investigations explored charge-like electronic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 S. W. Lovesey , J. T. Collins , S. P. Collins

The near-field interaction of plasmonic nanostructures and chiral molecules induces circular dichroism in achiral nanostructure. The induced circular dichroism (ICD) strength is several orders greater than the molecular inherent CD (MCD),…

Far-UV circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy provides a rapid, sensitive, nondestructive tool to analyze protein conformation by monitoring secondary structure composition. Originally intended for educational purposes, a spreadsheet-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-12 Luciano A. Abriata

Chiral crystals show promise for spintronic technologies on account of their high spin selectivity, which has led to significant recent interest in quantitative characterization and first-principles prediction of their spin-optoelectronics…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Christian Multunas , Andrew Grieder , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

Chiral perovskites owing to their broken mirror symmetry exhibit selective absorption of circularly polarized light manifesting a strong circular dichroism (CD). CD spectroscopy has been a key technique to understand chiral perovskites and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Reshna Shrestha , Wanyi Nie

Magnetic Circular Dichroism (MCD) is a standard technique for the study of magnetic properties of materials in synchrotron beamlines. We present here a new scattering geometry in the Transmission Electron Microscope through which MCD can be…

The plasmonic chirality has drawn a lot of attention because of the tunable circular dichroism (CD) and the enhancement for the signal of chiral molecules. Different mechanisms have been proposed for explaining the plasmonic CD, however, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Li Hu , Xiaorui Tian , Yingzhou Huang , Xinqiang Wang , Yurui Fang

We report on giant circular dichroism (CD) of a molecule inserted into a plasmonic hot spot. Naturally occurring molecules and biomolecules have typically CD signals in the UV range, whereas plasmonic nanocrystals exhibit strong plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hui Zhang , A. O. Govorov

DNA and proteins are chiral: their three-dimensional structure cannot be superimposed with its mirror image. Circular dichroism spectroscopy is widely used to characterize chiral compounds, but data interpretation is difficult in the case…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-09 Steven Daly , Frederic Rosu , Valerie Gabelica

Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) is a widely used spectroscopic technique which reveals valuable information about molecular geometry and electronic structure. However, the weak signal and the necessary strong magnets impose major…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Jiaan Cao , Lyuzhou Ye , Dawei He , Xiao Zheng , Shaul Mukamel

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…

Chirality is a fundamental feature in all domains of nature, ranging from particle physics over electromagnetism to chemistry and biology. Chiral objects lack a mirror plane and inversion symmetry and therefore cannot be spatially aligned…

We introduce chiral rotational spectroscopy: a new technique that enables the determination of the orientated optical activity pseudotensor components $B_{XX}$, $B_{YY}$ and $B_{ZZ}$ of chiral molecules, in a manner that reveals the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-01-16 Robert P. Cameron , Jörg B. Götte , Stephen M. Barnett

Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is a highly sensitive enantiospecific spectroscopy for studying chiral molecules in the gas phase using either single-photon ionization or multiphoton ionization. In the short pulse limit investigated…

Circular dichroism (CD) is an intriguing chiroptical phenomenon associated with the interaction of chiral structures with circularly polarized lights. Although the CD effect has been extensively studied in optics, it has not yet been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Qing Tong , Jensen Li , Shubo Wang

We propose an approach to sensitively probe the chirality of molecules by measuring their coherent optical absorption spectra. It is shown that quantum dynamics of the cyclic three-level chiral molecules driven by appropriately-designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 W. Z. Jia , L. F. Wei

Molecular Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy faces significant limitations due to the inherent weakness of chiroptical light-matter interactions. In this view, resonant optical antennas constitute a promising solution to this problem…

Chirality is of primary importance in many areas of chemistry and has been extensively investigated since its discovery. We introduce here the description of central chirality for tetrahedral molecules using a geometrical approach based on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Capozziello , A. Lattanzi