Chiroptical properties of chiral nanomaterials. (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Chiroptical properties of chiral nanomaterials.

Caption

a, The relationship between unpolarized light, linearly polarized light and circularly polarized light. b, Schematic illustration of circular dichroism (CD). c, Typically cotton effect (left and middle) and bisignate CD spectra (right) in chiral nanomaterials. d, Schematic illustration of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL).

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by Xuan Zhang, Yiyi Xu, Cristian Valenzuela, Xin Fang Zhang, Ling Wang, Wei Feng, and Quan Li

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