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ArticleNature nanotechnology2026

Geometry-induced spin chirality in a non-chiral ferromagnet at zero field.

Mingran Xu, Axel J M Deenen, Huixin Guo, Pamela Morales-Fernández, Sebastian Wintz, Elina Zhakina, Markus Weigand, Claire Donnelly, Dirk Grundler

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Mingran Xu *Institute of Materials (IMX), School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. mingran.xu@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0397-6629
Axel J M Deenen *Institute of Materials (IMX), School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0862-5596
Huixin GuoInstitute of Materials (IMX), School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0057-2642
Pamela Morales-FernándezMax Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-8442-9570
Sebastian WintzHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6138-8078
Elina ZhakinaMax Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
Markus WeigandHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0325-2268
Claire DonnellyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9942-2419
Dirk GrundlerInstitute of Materials (IMX), School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. dirk.grundler@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4966-9712

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 197360
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spin chirality is a fundamental property that manifests non-reciprocal transport-magnetochiral anisotropy (MChA). However, the application of MChA in technology is constrained by the necessity for an external magnetic field, complex non-centrosymmetric crystal synthesis and cryogenic environments. Here we overcome these challenges by imprinting geometric chirality onto a nickel tube via three-dimensional nanoengineering. We use two-photon lithography to create a structurally twisted polymeric template with micrometre-sized pitch and diameters and cover it with a uniform 30-nm-thick nickel shell. The nickel tube exhibits spontaneous MChA-non-reciprocal transport at zero magnetic field and room temperature. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism microscopy confirms helical spin textures stabilized by the torsion- and curvature-engineered shape anisotropy, while inelastic light scattering spectroscopy demonstrates robust non-reciprocal magnon transport at remanence, reconfigurable via magnetic field history. The chiral parameter in our device surpasses that of natural chiral magnets such as Cu

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