{"id":205003,"date":"2025-01-31T05:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/light-twisting-materials-created-from-nano-semiconductors-could-be-a-game-changer-for-optics"},"modified":"2025-01-31T05:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:16:37","slug":"light-twisting-materials-created-from-nano-semiconductors-could-be-a-game-changer-for-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/light-twisting-materials-created-from-nano-semiconductors-could-be-a-game-changer-for-optics","title":{"rendered":"Light-twisting materials created from nano semiconductors could be a game-changer for optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-twisting-materials-created-from-nano-semiconductors-could-be-a-game-changer-for-optics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cornell scientists have developed a novel technique to transform symmetrical semiconductor particles into intricately twisted, spiral structures\u2014or \u201cchiral\u201d materials\u2014producing films with extraordinary light-bending properties.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, detailed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ado7201\" target=\"_blank\">a paper<\/a> in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, could revolutionize technologies that rely on controlling light polarization, such as displays, sensors and optical communications devices.<\/p>\n<p>Chiral materials are special because they can twist light. One way to create them is through exciton-coupling, where light excites nanomaterials to form excitons that interact and share energy with each other. Historically, exciton-coupled chiral materials were made from organic, carbon-based molecules. Creating them from inorganic semiconductors, prized for their stability and tunable optical properties, has proven exceptionally challenging due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/precise+control\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">precise control<\/a> needed over nanomaterial interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell scientists have developed a novel technique to transform symmetrical semiconductor particles into intricately twisted, spiral structures\u2014or \u201cchiral\u201d materials\u2014producing films with extraordinary light-bending properties. The discovery, detailed in a paper in the journal Science, could revolutionize technologies that rely on controlling light polarization, such as displays, sensors and optical communications devices. Chiral materials are special [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}