Nanophotonic approaches for chirality sensing

LA Warning, AR Miandashti, LA McCarthy, Q Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics

Y Chen, W Du, Q Zhang, O Ávalos-Ovando… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Nanoscopic chiroptics studies the spin-dependent asymmetric light–matter interactions at
the nanoscale, where the asymmetry can stem from the intrinsic properties of materials …

Geometric filterless photodetectors for mid-infrared spin light

J Wei, Y Chen, Y Li, W Li, J **e, C Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-space circularly polarized light (CPL) detection, requiring polarizers and wave plates,
is well established, but such a spatial degree of freedom is unfortunately absent in …

Mechano-tunable chiral metasurfaces via colloidal assembly

PT Probst, M Mayer, V Gupta, AM Steiner, Z Zhou… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Dynamic control of circular polarization in chiral metasurfaces is being used in many
photonic applications. However, simple fabrication routes to create chiral materials with …

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures: recent advances in their synthesis and applications

W Wu, M Pauly - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chirality describes the geometric property of an object that is not superimposable on its
mirror image and has been a pivotal concept in chemistry and biology since the 19th …

Phototransformation of achiral metasurfaces into handedness-selectable transient chiral media

AS Kim, A Goswami, M Taghinejad, W Cai - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Chirality is a geometric property describing the lack of mirror symmetry. This unique feature
enables photonic spin-selectivity in light–matter interaction, which is of great significance in …

Chiral bioinspired plasmonics: a paradigm shift for optical activity and photochemistry

O Ávalos-Ovando, EY Santiago, A Movsesyan… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This Perspective concerns the latest developments in the field of chiral nanocrystals (NCs)
and metastructures, focusing primarily on plasmonic nanostructures. Such nanomaterials …

[HTML][HTML] Controllable generation of large-scale highly regular gratings on Si films

J Geng, X Fang, L Zhang, G Yao, L Xu, F Liu… - Light: Advanced …, 2021 - light-am.com
The application of femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface texturing has significant
potential in medicine, optics, tribology, and biology, among other areas. However, when …

Tuning the Chiral Growth of Plasmonic Bipyramids via the Wavelength and Polarization of Light

T Qiao, P Bordoloi, T Miyashita, JA Dionne… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Circularly polarized light (CPL) is a versatile tool to prepare chiral nanostructures, but the
mechanism for inducing enantioselectivity is not well understood. This work shows that the …

Creating Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures Using Chiral Light in a Solution and on a Substrate: The Near‐Field and Hot‐Electron Routes

A Movsesyan, A Muravitskaya… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Can chiral light induce chiral shapes in nanocrystals in a diluted solution? So far, it has been
unclear whether it could be and, if such, under which conditions it may occur. By using …