Twisted van der waals quantum materials: Fundamentals, tunability, and applications

X Sun, M Suriyage, AR Khan, M Gao, J Zhao… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Twisted van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials have emerged as a rapidly develo** field
of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. These materials establish a new central research …

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 …

Sliding induced multiple polarization states in two-dimensional ferroelectrics

P Meng, Y Wu, R Bian, E Pan, B Dong, X Zhao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
When the atomic layers in a non-centrosymmetric van der Waals structure slide against each
other, the interfacial charge transfer results in a reversal of the structure's spontaneous …

Electrostatic moiré potential from twisted hexagonal boron nitride layers

DS Kim, RC Dominguez, R Mayorga-Luna, D Ye… - Nature materials, 2024 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices host a rich variety of correlated electronic phases. However, the moiré
potential is fixed by interlayer coupling, and it is dependent on the nature of carriers and …

Interfacial epitaxy of multilayer rhombohedral transition-metal dichalcogenide single crystals

B Qin, C Ma, Q Guo, X Li, W Wei, C Ma, Q Wang, F Liu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Rhombohedral-stacked transition-metal dichalcogenides (3R-TMDs), which are distinct from
their hexagonal counterparts, exhibit higher carrier mobility, sliding ferroelectricity, and …

Moiré synaptic transistor with room-temperature neuromorphic functionality

X Yan, Z Zheng, VK Sangwan, JH Qian, X Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Moiré quantum materials host exotic electronic phenomena through enhanced internal
Coulomb interactions in twisted two-dimensional heterostructures,,–. When combined with …

Selective and quasi-continuous switching of ferroelectric Chern insulator devices for neuromorphic computing

M Chen, Y **e, B Cheng, Z Yang, XZ Li, F Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum materials exhibit dissipationless topological edge state transport with quantized
Hall conductance, offering notable potential for fault-tolerant computing technologies …

Atypical sliding and Moiré ferroelectricity in pure multilayer graphene

L Yang, S Ding, J Gao, M Wu - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Most nonferroelectric two-dimensional materials can be endowed with so-called sliding
ferroelectricity via nonequivalent homobilayer stacking, which is not applicable to …

Coexisting ferroelectric and ferrovalley polarizations in bilayer stacked magnetic semiconductors

Y Wu, J Tong, L Deng, F Luo, F Tian, G Qin… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
It has long been expected that the coexistence of ferroelectric and ferrovalley polarizations
in one magnetic semiconductor could offer the possibility to revolutionize electronic devices …

Visualizing moiré ferroelectricity via plasmons and nano-photocurrent in graphene/twisted-WSe2 structures

S Zhang, Y Liu, Z Sun, X Chen, B Li, SL Moore… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroelectricity, a spontaneous and reversible electric polarization, is found in certain
classes of van der Waals (vdW) materials. The discovery of ferroelectricity in twisted vdW …