Simulation of Circular Dichroism by Chromophores Coupled with Selective Reflection by Cholesteric Stacks

The Good–Karali theory is extended to simulate composite circular dichroism (CD) through a cholesteric stack by incorporating chromophore’s selective absorption (SA) and cholesteric stack’s selective reflection (SR). Based on the independently evaluated anisotropic refractive indices and absorption coefficients, helical sense and pitch length, and film thickness, the theory is capable of describing transmission, reflection, and absorption...