Meta-atoms for Chiral Metamolecules (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Meta-atoms for Chiral Metamolecules

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The schematic shows the chirality switching metamolecule consists of four chiral resonators with fourfold rotational symmetry. An external beam of light instantly reverses the metamolecule’s chirality from right-handed to left-handed.

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Courtesy of Xiang Zhang, et. al

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