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This book systematically analyses the chiral properties of plasmonic nanostructures with a strong focus on their chiral near-field response. In this chapter, we motivate these investigations and provide a short overview of the upcoming chapters.
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The term optical activity refers to a measurable physical consequence of the geometrical property “chirality”. It will be explained in detail in Sect. 2.2.3.
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Another example commonly referred to is thalidomide, which has been sold as a depressant under the name “Contergan”. Here, only the right-handed enantiomer leads to the desired behavior while the left-handed one is teratogenic [8]. However, both enantiomers are converted into each other without additional external influence. Therefore, even a purified right-handed sample does not prevent negative effects [9].
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Schäferling, M. (2017). Introduction. In: Chiral Nanophotonics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 205. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42264-0_1
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