title: Circular dichroism of planar chiral magnetic metamaterials.
abstract: We propose, fabricate, and study a double-layer chiral planar metamaterial that exhibits pronounced circular dichroism at near-infrared wavelengths. The antisymmetric oscillation modes of the two coupled layers allow local magnetic-dipole moments and enhanced polarization effects compared with similar single-layer systems where only electric-dipole moments occur. Experiment and rigorous theoretical calculations are in good agreement.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Angewande Physik and DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures, Universität Karlsruhe TH, Karlsruhe, Germany. manuel.decker@physick.uni-karlsruhe.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Decker
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wegener
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Linden