Chiral plasmonics

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We present a comprehensive overview of chirality and its optical manifestation in plasmonic nanosystems and nanostructures.

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We present a comprehensive overview of chirality and its optical manifestation in plasmonic nanosystems and nanostructures. We discuss top-down fabricated structures that range from solid metallic nanostructures to groupings of metallic nanoparticles arranged in three dimensions. We also present the large variety of bottom-up synthesized structures. Using DNA, peptides, or other scaffolds, complex nanoparticle arrangements of up to hundreds of individual nanoparticles have been realized. Beyond this static picture, we also give an overview of recent demonstrations of active chiral plasmonic systems, where the chiral optical response can be controlled by an external stimulus. We discuss the prospect of using the unique properties of complex chiral plasmonic systems for enantiomeric sensing schemes.

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Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sci Adv

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sci Adv

Journal ID (publisher-id): SciAdv

Journal ID (hwp): advances

Title: Science Advances

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

ISSN (Electronic): 2375-2548

Publication date Collection: May 2017

Publication date (Electronic): 17 May 2017

Volume: 3

Issue: 5

Electronic Location Identifier: e1602735

Affiliations

[1 ]4th Physics Institute and Research Center SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.

[2 ]Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Heisenbergstrasse 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.

[3 ]Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

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[* ]Corresponding author. Email: na.liu@ 123456kip.uni-heidelberg.de

Author information

Martin Schäferling http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2035-0572

Harald Giessen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4270-3850

Article

Publisher ID: 1602735

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602735

PMC ID: 5435411

PubMed ID: 28560336

SO-VID: 271012e9-3a52-484c-b75b-6dee0d2bdfdb

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.

History

Date received : 04 November 2016

Date accepted : 16 March 2017