Van der Waals ferroelectrics: Theories, materials, and device applications

S Li, F Wang, Y Wang, J Yang, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, an increasing number of 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials are theory‐
predicted or laboratory‐validated to possess in‐plane (IP) and/or out‐of‐plane (OOP) …

Stacking order engineering of two-dimensional materials and device applications

C Fox, Y Mao, X Zhang, Y Wang, J ** fatigue-resistant ferroelectrics using interlayer sliding switching
R Bian, R He, E Pan, Z Li, G Cao, P Meng, J Chen… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Ferroelectric materials have switchable electrical polarization that is appealing for high-
density nonvolatile memories. However, inevitable fatigue hinders practical applications of …

Engineering interfacial polarization switching in van der Waals multilayers

M Van Winkle, N Dowlatshahi, N Khaloo, M Iyer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In conventional ferroelectric materials, polarization is an intrinsic property limited by bulk
crystallographic structure and symmetry. Recently, it has been demonstrated that polar order …

Atomic-level polarization reversal in sliding ferroelectric semiconductors

F Sui, H Li, R Qi, M **, Z Lv, M Wu, X Liu… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Intriguing “slidetronics” has been reported in van der Waals (vdW) layered non-
centrosymmetric materials and newly-emerging artificially-tuned twisted moiré superlattices …

Bevel-edge epitaxy of ferroelectric rhombohedral boron nitride single crystal

L Wang, J Qi, W Wei, M Wu, Z Zhang, X Li, H Sun… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Within the family of two-dimensional dielectrics, rhombohedral boron nitride (rBN) is
considerably promising owing to having not only the superior properties of hexagonal boron …

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 …

Emergence of ferroelectricity in a nonferroelectric monolayer

W Li, X Zhang, J Yang, S Zhou, C Song… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroelectricity in ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) materials has attracted broad interest due
to potential applications in nonvolatile memory, nanoelectronics and optoelectronics …

The integration of two-dimensional materials and ferroelectrics for device applications

Q Liu, S Cui, R Bian, E Pan, G Cao, W Li, F Liu - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, there has been growing interest in functional devices based on two-
dimensional (2D) materials, which possess exotic physical properties. With an ultrathin …

Dual polarization-enabled ultrafast bulk photovoltaic response in van der Waals heterostructures

Z Zeng, Z Tian, Y Wang, C Ge, F Strauß… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) originating from spontaneous charge polarizations can
reach high conversion efficiency exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit. Emerging van der …