{"id":244855,"date":"2026-10-03T01:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/mirror-image-crystals-reverse-the-direction-of-light-driven-currents"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:44:38","slug":"mirror-image-crystals-reverse-the-direction-of-light-driven-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/mirror-image-crystals-reverse-the-direction-of-light-driven-currents","title":{"rendered":"Mirror-image crystals reverse the direction of light-driven currents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mirror-image-crystals-reverse-the-direction-of-light-driven-currents2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE), a phenomenon that generates helicity-dependent photocurrents in noncentrosymmetric materials, can originate purely from a crystal\u2019s internal structure without a contribution from the surface, a study from Science Tokyo reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers demonstrated this effect in 2D organic\u2013inorganic hybrid perovskites using circularly polarized light at normal incidence, which helped distinguish the bulk response from surface contributions. The finding establishes a strategy for regulating spin-polarized photocurrents and advancing opto-spintronic technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.6c02601\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nano Letters<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE), a phenomenon that generates helicity-dependent photocurrents in noncentrosymmetric materials, can originate purely from a crystal\u2019s internal structure without a contribution from the surface, a study from Science Tokyo reveals. Researchers demonstrated this effect in 2D organic\u2013inorganic hybrid perovskites using circularly polarized light at normal incidence, which helped distinguish the bulk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244855","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=244855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}