Circular polarization-selective optical, photothermal, and optofluidic effects in chiral metasurfaces

Cuiping Ma; Peng Yu; Zhimin Jing; Yisong Zhu; Peihang Li; Wenhao Wang; Hongxing Xu; Yanning Zhang; Liang Pan; Tae-Youl Choi; Arup Neogi; Alexander O. Govorov; Zhiming Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.509552

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 2, 331(2024)

Circular polarization-selective optical, photothermal, and optofluidic effects in chiral metasurfaces

Cuiping Ma¹, Peng Yu^1、*, Zhimin Jing¹, Yisong Zhu¹, Peihang Li¹, Wenhao Wang², Hongxing Xu³, Yanning Zhang¹, Liang Pan¹, Tae-Youl Choi⁴, Arup Neogi¹, Alexander O. Govorov⁵, and Zhiming Wang¹

Author Affiliations

¹Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

²Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore

³School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

⁴Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76207, USA

⁵Department of Physics and Astronomy and Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA

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Paper Information

Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

Received: Oct. 17, 2023

Accepted: Dec. 20, 2023

Published Online: Feb. 2, 2024

The Author Email: Peng Yu (peng.yu@uestc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.509552

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