Abstract

We propose a bilayer structure made of two twisted hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) slabs for realizing tunable chirality in this work. Our numerical results show that a maximum circular dichroism as high as 0.84 can be achieved with the bilayer structure. The chiral response of the proposed structure comes from the combined effects of polarization conversion of circularly polarized wave with the top slab and selective transmission of linearly polarized wave with the bottom slab. Besides, the chirality can be actively controlled by adjusting the optic axis orientation of the top hBN slab. Finally, the bilayer structure is possible to be built with other suitable materials, metamaterials and microstructures for functioning chiral response in different wavebands. Therefore, the results in this work may provide some important hints for the design of novel chiral response sensors for optical, chemical and biological sensing.

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