Artificial chiral nanostructures have been subjected to extensive research for their unique
chiroptical activities. Planarized chiral films of ultrathin thicknesses are in particular demand …

Surface plasmons (SPs) are electromagnetic surface waves that propagate at the interface
between a conductor and a dielectric. Due to their unique ability to concentrate light on two …

Weyl points are the crossings of linearly dispersing energy bands of three-dimensional
crystals, providing the opportunity to explore a variety of intriguing phenomena such as …

The strong optical chirality arising from certain synthetic metamaterials has important and
widespread applications in polarization optics, stereochemistry and spintronics. However …

Optical chiral metamaterials have recently attracted considerable attention because they
offer new and exciting opportunities for fundamental research and practical applications …

Three-dimensional chiral plasmonic metasurfaces were demonstrated to offer enormous
potential for ultrathin circular polarizers and applications in chiral sensing. However, the …

Active control over the handedness of a chiral metamaterial has the potential to serve as key
element for highly integrated polarization engineering approaches, polarization sensitive …

Chiral media exhibit optical activity, which manifests itself as differential retardation and
attenuation of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves of opposite handedness. This …

Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

Owing to the chirality of Weyl nodes, the Weyl systems can support one-way chiral zero
modes under a strong magnetic field, which leads to nonconservation of chiral currents—the …