The persistence of voltage-switchable collective electronic phenomena down to the atomic
scale has extensive implications for area-and energy-efficient electronics, especially in …

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 …

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 …

Lead zirconate titanate (PbZ r 1− x T ix O 3, PZT) exhibits excellent piezoelectric properties
in the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) region of its temperature-composition phase …

Sliding ferroelectricity enables materials with intrinsic centrosymmetric symmetry to generate
spontaneous polarization via stacking engineering, extending the family of ferroelectric …

The duality between electric and magnetic dipoles in electromagnetism only partly applies to
condensed matter. In particular, the elementary excitations of the magnetic and ferroelectric …

Sliding ferroelectricity was originally proposed to elucidate the out-of-plane polarization
generated by a specific stacking arrangement of nonpolar van der Waals layers. However …

Ferroelectric materials, celebrated for their switchable polarization, have undergone
significant evolution since their early discovery in Rochelle salt. Initial challenges, including …

Ferroelectric solid solutions usually exhibit giant dielectric response and high
piezoelectricity in the vicinity of the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), where the …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures consist of different 2D
crystals with diverse properties, constituting the cornerstone of the new generation of 2D …