dichroism
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English
Etymology
Noun
dichroism (countable and uncountable, plural dichroisms)
- The property of some crystals of transmitting different colors of light in different directions.
- (physics) The property of some anisotropic materials of having different absorption coefficients for light polarized in different directions; circular dichroism.
- 2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv:
- In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
Derived terms
Translations
the transmission of different colors in different directions