Observation of left and right at nanoscale with optical force

Date 5th, Oct 2023
Source Nanowerk - Nanotechnology Websites

DESCRIPTION

Scientists successfully observed the left and right handedness of material structures at the nanoscale, by illuminating chiral gold nanostructures with circularly polarized light and detecting the optical force acting on a probe near the nanostructures. This result demonstrated that it is possible to analyze the chiral structure of matter at the nanoscale using light.