Anomalously rotary polarization discovered in homochiral organic ferroelectrics

Ferroelectric phase transitions are normally accompanied by structural changes in the materials. Here, Li et al. synthesize homochiral molecular crystals and utilize their ferroelectric transitions to achieve optical switches with different refractive indices for left- and right-handed polarizations...

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Main Authors: Peng-Fei Li, Yuan-Yuan Tang, Zhong-Xia Wang, Heng-Yun Ye, Yu-Meng You, Ren-Gen Xiong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13635