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Semiconductor applications of large-scale meron lattices

The use of topological spin structures is restricted by their limited scale, thermal stability or magnetic field requirements. A high-magnetic-field-assisted growth approach overcomes these limitations, enabling the construction of millimetre-scale meron lattices. These lattices were used to demonstrate chirality transfer from topologically protected quasiparticles to electrons and then photons.

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Fig. 1: A large-scale meron lattice and its practical semiconductor application.

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This is a summary of: Wu, X. et al. Topology-induced chiral photon emission from a large-scale meron lattice. Nat. Electron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-023-00990-4 (2023).

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Semiconductor applications of large-scale meron lattices. Nat Electron 6, 477–478 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-023-00998-w

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