Chirality in optoelectronics addresses how broken symmetry at the molecular, nanoscale, and mesoscale levels gives rise to fundamentally new optical and electronic functionalities. From Pasteur’s early observations linking crystal handedness to optical rotation, the field has evolved toward modern materials in which chemistry, nanofabrication, and device engineering are deliberately used to encode chirality into semiconductors and photonic structures. The #ChiroOPT symposium will highlight chiral semiconductors and nanomaterials, symmetry-breaking and chirality-transfer strategies, and their implementation in light-emitting and spin-functional devices, while addressing emerging challenges and opportunities in chiral spectroscopy, dynamics, and optoelectronic applications.
- chirality
- light-emitting devices
- nanomaterials
- nanofabrication
- optoelectronics
- emerging semiconductors
- spectroscopy and dynamics
- circular polarization
- spintronics
- optical activity
Dr. Beatriz Martín-García received her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (Cum Laude) from University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2013. Then, she joined Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy) under the Graphene Flagship project working during almost 6 years on the modulation of optoelectronic properties of different materials (nanocrystals, 2D materials and hybrid metal-halide perovskites) by chemical-design and surface-functionalization strategies for their integration in solar cells, photodetectors and memories. She is currently an Ikerbasque researcher and Ramón y Cajal fellow at CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, leading a research line developing tailor-made low-dimensional materials and studying them by Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy techniques to drive the selection of desired properties for their integration in optoelectronic and spintronic devices.
Agustín is experienced in the optical design, fabrication and characterization of large area photonic architectures that can be easily implemented in emerging optoelectronic devices to improve their performance. His group specializes in soft nanoimprinting lithography, which offers an inexpensive and simple pathway to exploit the optical properties of nanophotonic structures with unconventional materials and devices.