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Meta-atoms for Chiral Metamolecules

Caption: The schematic shows the chirality switching metamolecule consists of four chiral resonators with fourfold rotational symmetry. An external beam of light instantly reverses the metamolecule’s chirality from right-handed to left-handed.

Credit: Courtesy of Xiang Zhang, et. al

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