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Plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions

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Chirality is a geometric feature, corresponding to the structures that cannot be brought to coincide with their mirror images. To discriminate the object chirality is critical and significant in many areas such as life science, chemistry and physics. Chiral plasmonic from two aspects including chiral near-fields and chiroptical effects in far-fields of nanostructures will be discussed. Chiral near-fields can be characterized by the optical chirality density. Chiroptical effects in far-fields can be analyzed by the transmission matrix. As for far-field chiroptical effects, circular birefringence (CB), circular dichroism (CD) and asymmetric transmission (AT) are frequently discussed. Additional, chiral biomolecules can change some characteristics of chiral nanostructures and thus can be used for chiral sensing. The sensor is easy to implement and is non-invasive to the analyte. Therefore, chiral plasmons have good application prospects in ultra-sensitive chiral molecular sensing. Plasmonic chirality is still evolving, and many phenomena and challenges remain undiscovered, such as circularly polarized luminescence, nonlinear chiral effects, chiral selective hot electron transfer, ultrafast detection, and chiral quantum optics. The research on plasmonic chirality plays a vital role in the future development of science and technology.

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Zhang, Z. (2022). Chiral Plasmonics. In: Yu, P., Xu, H., Wang, Z.M. (eds) Plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87544-2_1

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