Replication Data for: Mid-infrared chirality and chiral thermal emission from twisted α-MoO3

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Chirality in the mid-infrared spectral range plays a crucial role across physical, chemical, and biological sciences, yet sources of chiral infrared light are currently difficult to obtain. Their development, using principles from the mature field of metamaterials, requires complex three-dimensional architectures that call for high-resolution lithography. Here, we leverage the natural optical anisotropy found in several van der Waals crystals, for example α-MoO3, to demonstrate experimentally that its twisted bilayers break inversion-rotation symmetry and are thereby intrinsically chiral. Via direct thermal emission measurements of microscopic twisted bilayers, we demonstrate that these heterostructures generate chiral light through incandescence. Twisted configurations of van der Waals materials do not require any lithography and offer a platform for large-scale chiral filters and thermal sources beyond conventional meta-architectures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.34810/DATA2991
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66036-9
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Creator Enders, Michael T. ORCID logo; Sarkar, Mitradeep ORCID logo; Klironomou, Evgenia ORCID logo; Picardi, Michela Florinda (ORCID: 0000-0002-7910-494X); Bertini, Riccardo ORCID logo; Deeva, Aleksandra ORCID logo; Papadakis, Georgia Theano ORCID logo
Publisher CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca
Contributor Papadakis, Georgia; Institut de Ciències Fotòniques
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference https://ror.org/003x0zc53 PRE2020-094401 ; https://ror.org/00k4n6c32 847517 ; https://ror.org/03zhx9h04 100010434 ; https://ror.org/003x0zc53 PID2021-125441OA-I00 ; https://ror.org/003x0zc53 PID2020-112625GBI00 ; https://ror.org/003x0zc53 CEX2019-000910-S ; https://ror.org/01bg62x04 2021 SGR 01443
Rights CC BY 4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Papadakis, Georgia (Fundació Institut de Ciències Fotòniques)
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics