New cluster of excellence with MBI participation approved
The aim of the “Center for Chiral Electronics” is to harness chiral properties in solids and molecules
The Center for Chiral Electronics is one of the 25 new clusters of excellence approved in May 2025 as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The successful initiative was spearheaded by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Regensburg, the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, and the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin. The focus is on harnessing chiral properties in solids and molecules to make them usable for the next generation of electronics. The program combines ambitious basic research on structural chirality emerging from non-chiral systems and occurring on ultra-short time scales with the aim of developing innovative concepts for energy-efficient and high-performance electronics.
Prof. Sangeeta Sharma from the Max Born Institute and the FU Berlin is contributing to this with theoretical ab-initio predictions. Her focus is on understanding the processes that occur on ultrafast time scales during interaction with light pulses, as well as the prediction and utilization of chiral spin textures that can be generated in suitable magnetic materials.
Contact:
Prof. Sangeeta Sharma
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
sharma(at)mbi-berlin.de
https://mbi-berlin.de/de/p/sangeetasharma
MBI press release, 3 June 2025