Sliding van der Waals polytypes

M Vizner Stern, S Salleh Atri, M Ben Shalom - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Compared with electronic phase transitions, structural phase transitions of crystals are
challenging to control owing to the energy cost of breaking dense solid bonds. Recently …

Two-dimensional van der Waals ferroelectrics: A pathway to next-generation devices in memory and neuromorphic computing

H Zhao, J Yun, Z Li, Y Liu, L Zheng, P Kang - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in CPU processing speeds has significantly advanced artificial
intelligence, yet it has also exacerbated the disparity in CPU utilization and data throughput …

Ultrafast switching of sliding polarization and dynamical magnetic field in van der Waals bilayers induced by light

J Wang, X Li, X Ma, L Chen, JM Liu, CG Duan… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Sliding ferroelectricity is a unique type of polarity recently observed in van der Waals
bilayers with a suitable stacking. However, electric-field control of sliding ferroelectricity is …

Stacking-engineered ferroelectricity and multiferroic order in van der Waals magnets

D Bennett, G Martínez-Carracedo, X He, J Ferrer… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) materials that exhibit spontaneous magnetization, polarization, or
strain (referred to as ferroics) have the potential to revolutionize nanotechnology by …

Sliding Ferroelectricity Induced Ultrafast Switchable Photovoltaic Response in ε‐InSe Layers

Y Wang, Z Zeng, Z Tian, C Li, K Braun… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D sliding ferroelectric semiconductors have greatly expanded the ferroelectrics
family with the flexibility of bandgap and material properties, which hold great promise for …

Resolving polarization switching pathways of sliding ferroelectricity in trilayer 3R-MoS2

J Liang, D Yang, J Wu, Y **ao, K Watanabe… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Sliding ferroelectricity, an emerging type of hysteretic behaviour with strong potential for
memory-related applications, involves dynamically switching the polarization associated …

Topological Polar Networks in Twisted Rhombohedral-Stacked Bilayer WSe2 Moiré Superlattices

Y Li, S Wan, H Liu, H Huang, Z Li, X Weng, M Zhu… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Sliding ferroelectricity enables materials with intrinsic centrosymmetric symmetry to generate
spontaneous polarization via stacking engineering, extending the family of ferroelectric …

Asymmetric dynamical charges in two-dimensional ferroelectrics

D Bennett, P Ghosez - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Ferroelectricity is commonly understood in terms of dynamical charges, which represent the
dipole moments generated by atomic displacements or the forces induced by electric fields …

Sliding ferroelectric memories and synapses based on rhombohedral-stacked bilayer MoS2

X Li, B Qin, Y Wang, Y **, Z Huang, M Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances have uncovered an exotic sliding ferroelectric mechanism, which endows
to design atomically thin ferroelectrics from non-ferroelectric parent monolayers. Although …

Sliding ferroelectricity in two-dimensional materials and device applications

X Sun, Q **a, T Cao, S Yuan - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2025 - Elsevier
The discovery of emerging two-dimensional (2D) sliding ferroelectricity has opened up an
important approach to constructing ferroelectric materials at the atomic scale. This review …