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Importance of higher-order multipole transitions on chiral nearfield interactions

Title of paper
Importance of higher-order multipole transitions on chiral nearfield interactions
Author
[노준석교수 연구실]
Publication in journal
Nanophotonics 8(5), p941–948, 2019
Publication date
20190517

[Abstract]

Surface-enhanced circular dichroism (SECD) of chiral molecules adsorbed on plasmonic nanostructures can substantially enhance chiroptical molecular signals by several orders, which is otherwise very weak to be directly measured. Several mechanisms were proposed to explain this extreme enhancement, but the exact mechanism is still controversial. We investigate strong higher-order multipole contribution to SECD near plasmonic nanostructures using the superposition T-matrix method and discuss how 3-dimensional full-field simulations implementing a homogeneous chiral medium have succeeded in the reconstruction of the extreme enhancement. We also discuss how theoretical studies modeling chiral molecules based on dipole approximation have failed to reconstruct the extreme enhancement and show that SECD enhancement of such chiral dipoles is directly governed by optical chirality enhancement. In addition, strong multipolar transitions in subwavelength chiral plasmonic nanoparticles are discussed based on the T-matrix. This work reviews theoretical frameworks describing chiral molecules, demonstrates significant contribution of a multipolar transition on the extreme SECD enhancement near plasmonic nanostructures, and emphasizes the importance of a multipolar transition in chiral nearfield interaction.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2019-0046

LINK: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/nanoph.2019.8.issue-5/nanoph-2019-0046/nanoph-2019-0046.xml