Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Organic-to-inorganic structural chirality transfer in a 2D hybrid perovskite and impact on Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

  • Manoj K. Jana,
  • Ruyi Song,
  • Haoliang Liu,
  • Dipak Raj Khanal,
  • Svenja M. Janke,
  • Rundong Zhao,
  • Chi Liu,
  • Z. Valy Vardeny,
  • Volker Blum,
  • David B. Mitzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18485-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Inversion asymmetry imparts rich condensed matter phenomena in inorganic systems, and transmission of chirality across structural motifs is an attractive design strategy to break symmetry. Here, the authors use chiral organic cations to transfer structural chirality to inorganic layers in hybrid perovskites.