Researchers use printed polymer to explore chirality and spin interactions at room temperature
Researchers at North Carolina State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Duke University and Sivananthan Laboratories have relied on a printable organic polymer, that assembles into chiral structures when printed, to reliably measure the amount of charge produced in spin-to-charge conversion within a spintronic material at room temperature.
The polymer’s tunable qualities and versatility make it desirable not only for less expensive, environmentally friendly, printable electronic applications, but also for use in understanding chirality and spin interactions more generally.