Towards two-dimensional van der Waals ferroelectrics

C Wang, L You, D Cobden, J Wang - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The discovery of ferroelectricity in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials has
brought important functionalities to the 2D materials family, and may trigger a revolution in …

Progress on emerging ferroelectric materials for energy harvesting, storage and conversion

XK Wei, N Domingo, Y Sun, N Balke… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of Rochelle salt a century ago, ferroelectric materials have been
investigated extensively due to their robust responses to electric, mechanical, thermal …

Ferroelectric switching of a two-dimensional metal

Z Fei, W Zhao, TA Palomaki, B Sun, MK Miller, Z Zhao… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
A ferroelectric is a material with a polar structure whose polarity can be reversed (switched)
by applying an electric field,. In metals, itinerant electrons screen electrostatic forces …

Towards properties on demand in quantum materials

DN Basov, RD Averitt, D Hsieh - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the field of quantum materials, headlined by
the predictions and discoveries of novel Landau-symmetry-broken phases in correlated …

New frontiers for the materials genome initiative

JJ de Pablo, NE Jackson, MA Webb, LQ Chen… - npj Computational …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) advanced a new paradigm for materials
discovery and design, namely that the pace of new materials deployment could be …

Ferroic phases in two-dimensional materials

P Man, L Huang, J Zhao, TH Ly - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) ferroics, namely ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, and ferroelastic
materials, are attracting rising interest due to their fascinating physical properties and …

Rare-earth nickelates RNiO3: thin films and heterostructures

S Catalano, M Gibert, J Fowlie, J Íñiguez… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review stands in the larger framework of functional materials by focussing on
heterostructures of rare-earth nickelates, described by the chemical formula RNiO 3 where R …

Towards oxide electronics: a roadmap

M Coll, J Fontcuberta, M Althammer, M Bibes… - Applied surface …, 2019 - orbit.dtu.dk
At the end of a rush lasting over half a century, in which CMOS technology has been
experiencing a constant and breathtaking increase of device speed and density, Moore's …

A room-temperature ferroelectric semimetal

P Sharma, FX **ang, DF Shao, D Zhang… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Coexistence of reversible polar distortions and metallicity leading to a ferroelectric metal,
first suggested by Anderson and Blount in 1965, has so far remained elusive. Electrically …

Giant anisotropic nonlinear optical response in transition metal monopnictide Weyl semimetals

L Wu, S Patankar, T Morimoto, NL Nair, E Thewalt… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Although Weyl fermions have proven elusive in high-energy physics, their existence as
emergent quasiparticles has been predicted in certain crystalline solids in which either …