Quantitatively analyzing the mechanism of giant circular dichroism in extrinsic plasmonic chiral nanostructures by tracking the interplay of electric and magnetic dipoles
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

Plasmonic chirality has drawn much attention because of tunable circular dichroism (CD) and the enhancement for chiral molecule signals. Although various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the plasmonic CD, a quantitative explanation like the ab initio mechanism for chiral molecules, is still unavailable. In this study, a mechanism similar to the mechanisms associated with chiral molecules was analyzed. The giant extrinsic circular dichroism of a plasmonic splitting rectangle ring was quantitatively investigated from a theoretical standpoint. The interplay of the electric and magnetic modes of the meta-structure is proposed to explain the giant CD. We analyzed the interplay using both an analytical coupled electric-magnetic dipole model and a finite element method model. The surface charge distributions showed that the circular current yielded by the splitting rectangle ring causes the ring to behave like a magneton at some resonant modes, which then interact with the electric modes, resulting in a mixing of the two types of modes. The strong interplay of the two mode types is primarily responsible for the giant CD. The analysis of the chiral near-field of the structure shows potential applications for chiral molecule sensing.

Science & Technology - Other Topics

nanocrystals

model

Materials Science

Physics

Chemistry

resonances

nanoparticles

Författare

L. Hu

Chongqing University

Chongqing Technology and Business University

X. R. Tian

Shandong Normal University

Y. Z. Huang

Chongqing University

L. Fang

Chongqing University

Yurui Fang

Chalmers, Fysik, Bionanofotonik

Nanoscale

2040-3364 (ISSN) 2040-3372 (eISSN)

Vol. 8 6 3720-3728

Ämneskategorier

Fysik

DOI

10.1039/c5nr08527f

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2017-10-07