Publication date: 22nd July 2026
Understanding and the interconversion between spin and charge current under chirality induced spin selectivity (CISS) is critical in leverage chiral semiconductors for developing room-temperature control over spin, charge and light. CISS phenomena arise from an interplay among structural chirality, electron spin orientation, and charge current. Steady-state observations such as magnetoresistance (MR) offer little insight into the timescales that govern the spin-charge interconversion. In contrast, inverse CISS involves the conversion of spin to a charge current. Terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy (TES) offers a non-contact probe of the induced charge current that maps the charge current direction in three dimensions. We show how the THz emission can map the spin-to-charge conversion and study THz emission in FM/chiral perovskite heterostructures. We contrast with room temperature magnetoresistance in similar films. We show that both CISS and ICISS exhibit similar symmetry, i.e., for ICISS the current direction reverses either for changing the chirality or magnetization direction. These observations directly demonstrate the inherent coupling between spin and charge currents in chiral systems. These observations suggest constraints on the CISS mechanism. For a chiral/FM interface there is spin accumulation at the interface: injection of either charge (CISS) or spin (ICISS) drives the spin configuration out of equilibrium and movement of spin (CISS) or charge (ICISS) must compensate, thus driving the spin-to-charge interconversion.
