Induced Chirality (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Induced Chirality

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Beams of circularly polarized light (shown as blue spirals) can have two different mirror-image orientations, as shown here. When these beams strike a sheet of titanium diselenide (shown as a lattice of blue and silver balls), the electrons (aqua dots) in the material take on the handedness of the light's polarization.

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