Highly Chiral Light Emission Using Plasmonic Helicoid Nanoparticles

Abstract Materials generating circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) have received increasing interest due to their potential applications in bioimaging, sensing, anticounterfeiting, and display technologies. The possibility of efficient CPL generation is explored for organic molecules, inorganic materials, and their hybrid systems. A chiral plasmonic nanostructure is one candidate for generating strong and highly dissymmetric CPL by coupling with the surrounding luminescent material. Here, the inherent luminescence of gold nanoparticles can produce CPL without using any secondary material is suggested. In this study, the generation of circularly polarized two‐photon‐induced photoluminescence (TPI‐PL) from chiral gold nanostructures is demonstrated. Measurements of TPI‐PL show that it has a strong dissymmetry factor of ≈0.7 for a single chiral Au nanoparticle. A theoretical simulation s…