| Abstract Scope |
The emergence of chiral phenomena in the lattice, charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom-characterized by their unique absence of standard inversion, mirror, or other roto-inversion symmetries-presents both challenges and opportunities. These materials exhibit distinctive interactions with light, leading to phenomena such as molecular optical activity, chiral photonic waveguides, and valley-specific light emissions, which are pivotal in the burgeoning fields of photonic and spintronic devices.
In this talk, I will discuss our group's advancements in developing coherent diffractive imaging with twisted X-rays [1], which is a promising probe for exploring magnetism, defects types and structural chirality in condensed matter systems [2].
References
1) Coherent diffractive imaging with twisted X-rays: Principles, applications, and outlook, N. Nazirkar, et al. Appl. Phys. Rev. 11, 021302 (2024)
2) Enhanced Piezoelectric Response at Nanoscale Vortex Structures in Ferroelectrics. X. Shi et al. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 16, 6, 7522–7530 (2024) |