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Two-dimensional (2D) sliding ferroelectric (FE) metals with ferrimagnetism represent a previously unexplored class of spintronic materials, featuring out-of-plane FE polarization, metallic conductivity, and a finite net magnetization, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-17 Zhenzhou Guo , Shifeng Qian , Xiaodong Zhou , Wenhong Wang , Zhenxiang Cheng , Xiaotian Wang

In the realm of modern materials science and advanced electronics, ferroelectric materials have emerged as a subject of great intrigue and significance, chiefly due to their remarkable property of reversible spontaneous polarization. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 Kai Kong , Qiang Wang , Yixuan Li , Yitong Liang

Fluorite ferroelectrics are exciting candidates for next-generation non-volatile memory devices because their unique ferroelectric mechanism, which arises from unconventional oxygen displacements, permits ferroelectricity with minimal…

Heterostructures based on two dimensional (2D) materials offer the possibility to achieve synergistic functionalities which otherwise remain secluded by their individual counterparts. Herein ferroelectric polarization switching in…

Nanoscaled room-temperature ferroelectricity is ideal for developing advanced non-volatile high-density memories. However, reaching the thin film limit in conventional ferroelectrics is a long-standing challenge due to the possible critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-15 Siyuan Wan , Yue Li , Wei Li , Xiaoyu Mao , Wenguang Zhu , Hualing Zeng

The switching dynamics of ferroelectric materials is a crucial intrinsic property which directly affects the operation and performance of ferroelectric devices. In conventional ferroelectric materials, the typical ferroelectric switching…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-02 Ri He , Hua Wang , Fucai Liu , Shi Liu , Houfang Liu , Zhicheng Zhong

Moir\'e materials, with superlattice periodicity many times the atomic length scale, have enabled the studies of strong electronic correlations and band topology with unprecedented tunability. However, nonvolatile control of the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Kaifei Kang , Wenjin Zhao , Yihang Zeng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

2D Ferroelectricity with switchable electric polarization has drawn widespread attention in condensed matter physics due to its crucial applications in non-volatile memory and ferroelectric spin devices. Despite recent progress in 2D…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-17 Jiajun Zhu , Botao Fu , Heyun Zhao , Wanbiao Hu

Ferroelectric materials can switch their polarization in response to an applied electric field. In this work, ferroelectricity at the single molecule level is proposed and investigated using density functional theory (DFT) calculations.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Xinfeng Quan , Geoffrey R. Hutchison

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 structures spontaneous polarization. This phenomenon is known as sliding…

Ferroelectric materials exhibit a switchable, spontaneous polarization at the unit cell level--an attractive property utilized in many emerging technologies including, among others, high-density memory storage, low-power transistors, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Claire Griesbach , Tizian Scharsach , Morgan Trassin , Dennis M. Kochmann

In solids, charge polarity can one-to-one correspond to spin polarity phenomenologically, e.g. ferroelectricity/ferromagnetism, antiferroelectricity/antiferromagnetism, and even dipole-vortex/magnetic-vortex, but…

Two-dimensional materials that exhibit spontaneous electric polarization are of notable interest for functional materials. However, despite many two-dimensional polar materials are predicted in theory, the number of experimentally confirmed…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-04 Weiwei Gao , James R Chelikowsky

Vertical ferroelectricity where a net dipole moment appears as a result of in-plane ionic displacements has gained enormous attention following its discovery in transition metal dichalcogenides. Based on first-principles calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-29 Xiaonan Ma , Chang Liu , Wei Ren , Sergey A. Nikolaev

Polar metals characterized by the simultaneous coexistence of ferroelectric distortions and metallicity have attracted tremendous attention. Developing such materials at low dimensions remains challenging since both conducting electrons and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-24 Tao Xu , Jingtong Zhang , Yuquan Zhu , Jie Wang , Takahiro Shimada , Takayuki Kitamura , Tong-Yi Zhang

Interfacial ferroelectricity offers a promising platform for ultrafast, low-power memory devices. While previous studies have demonstrated the importance of domain wall in polarization switching, the coexistence of various domain wall types…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-24 Hao-Wen Xu , Wen-Cheng Fan , Jun-Ding Zheng , Cheng-Shi Yao , Ni Zhong , Wen-Yi Tong , Chun-Gang Duan

BaMF4 (M=Fe, Co, Ni and Mn) family are typical multiferroic materials, having antiferromagnetism at around liquid nitrogen temperature. In this work, polycrystalline BaFeF4 has been prepared by solid state reaction. The slight deficiency of…

Proximity ferroelectricity has recently been reported as a new design paradigm for inducing ferroelectricity, where a non-ferroelectric polar material becomes a ferroelectric by interfacing with a thin ferroelectric layer. Strongly polar…

Using first-principles calculations, we predict that tunable ferroelectricity can be realized in oxide perovskites with the Grenier structure and ordered oxygen vacancies. Specifically, we show that $R_{1/3}A_{2/3}\mathrm{FeO}_{2.67}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 Yongjin Shin , Giulia Galli

Recent studies highlight the scientific importance and broad application prospects of two-dimensional (2D) sliding ferroelectrics, which prevalently exhibit vertical polarization with suitable stackings. It is crucial to understand the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Shihan Deng , Hongyu Yu , Junyi Ji , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang