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Accessible Superchiral Near-Fields Driven by Tailored Electric and Magnetic Resonances in All-Dielectric Nanostructures

Mohammadi, Ershad  
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Tavakoli, Ahad
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Dehkhoda, Parisa
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August 1, 2019
ACS Photonics

Detection and differentiation of enantiomers in small quantities are crucially important in many scientific fields, including biology, chemistry, and pharmacy. Chiral molecules manifest their handedness in their interaction with the chiral state of light (e.g., circularly polarized light), which is commonly leveraged in circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. However, compared to the linear refractive index molecular chirality is extremely weak, resulting in low detection efficiencies. Recently, it has been shown that these weak chiroptical signals can be enhanced by increasing the optical chirality of the electromagnetic fields interacting with chiral samples. Here, we show numerically and analytically that dielectric structures can provide an optimum chiral sensing platform by offering uniform superchiral near-fields. To illustrate this, we first study a simple dielectric dimer and show that circularly polarized light can induce parallel and out of phase electric and magnetic fields, which are spectrally and spatially overlapped, and therefore produce superchiral fields at the midpoint of the dimer. This behavior is in contrast to, for example, a plasmonic dimer, where the optical chirality is limited by the electric dipolar field, which is not completely out of phase with the incident magnetic field. With the insights gained from this analysis, next we develop an approach for overlapping electric and magnetic fields in a single particle, based on Kerker effect. In particular, we introduce a Kerker-inspired metasurface consisting of holey dielectric disks, which offers uniform and accessible superchiral near-fields with CD signal enhancements of nearly 24 times.

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DOI
10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01767
Web of Science ID

WOS:000482545400017

Author(s)
Mohammadi, Ershad  
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Tavakoli, Ahad
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Dehkhoda, Parisa
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Jahani, Yasaman  
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Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L.  
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Tittl, Andreas  
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Altug, Hatice  
Date Issued

2019-08-01

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
ACS Photonics
Volume

6

Issue

8

Start page

1939

End page

1946

Subjects

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Optics

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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Optics

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Physics

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optical chirality

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chiral sensing

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circular dichroism

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dielectric metasurfaces

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plasmonics

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circular-dichroism

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directional scattering

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chirality

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enhancement

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plasmonics

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light

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REVIEWED

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