Orientation-Dependent Handedness and Chiral Design
Chirality occupies a central role in fields ranging from biological self-assembly to the design of optical metamaterials. The definition of chirality, as given by Lord Kelvin, associates chirality with the lack of mirror symmetry: the inability to superpose an object on its mirror image. While this...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2014-01-01
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Series: | Physical Review X |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011003 |