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The interplay between ferroelectricity and band topology can give rise to a wide range of both fundamental and applied research. Here, we map out the emergence of nontrivial corner states in two-dimensional ferroelectrics, and remarkably…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-01 Ning Mao , Runhan Li , Xiaorong Zou , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

Interfacial interactions in two parallel-stacked hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) layers facilitate sliding ferroelectricity, enabling novel device functionalities. Additionally, when Bernal or twisted bilayer graphene is aligned with an hBN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Tianyu Zhang , Yueyang Wang , Hongxia Xue , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dong-Keun Ki

Low dimensional ferroelectrics are highly desired for applications and full of exotic physics. Here a functionalized MXene Hf$_2$CF$_2$ monolayer is theoretically studied, which manifests a nonpolar to polar transition upon moderate biaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-17 Ziwen Wang , Ning Ding , Churen Gui , Shanshan Wang , Ming An , Shuai Dong

Two-dimensional (2D) intrinsic superconductors with nontrivial topological band and vertical ferroelectricity exhibit fascinating characteristics to achieving electrostatic control of quantum phases. While, only a few such 2D materials have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-01 Xin-Zhu Yin , Na Jiao , Jinlian Lu , Meng-Meng Zheng , Hong-Yan Lu , Ping Zhang

Using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism in a tight binding model, the spin-dependent transport in armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures controlled by a ferromagnetic gate is investigated. Beyond the oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Nam Do , A. Bournel , V. Lien Nguyen , P. Dollfus

We report supercurrent transport measurements in hybrid Josephson junctions comprised of semiconducting InAs nanowires with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator EuS and superconducting Al coatings. The wires display a hysteretic…

Ferroelectrics are essential in low-dimensional memory devices for multi-bit storage and high-density integration. A polar structure is a necessary premise for ferroelectricity, mainly existing in compounds. However, it is usually rare in…

We examine the possibility of using graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with directly substituted chromium atoms as spintronic device. Using density functional theory, we simulate a voltage bias across a constructed GNR in a device setup, where a…

On the basis of first-principles computational approaches, we present a new method to drive zigzag graphene nanoribons (ZGNRs) into the half-metallic state using a ferroelectric material, poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). Owing to strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Yea-Lee Lee , Seungchul Kim , Changwon Park , Jisoon Ihm , Young-Woo Son

We calculated a spin-polarized conductance in the almost unexplored nanostructure "high temperature ferromagnetic insulator/ graphene/ ferroelectric film" with a special attention to the impact of electric polarization rotation in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-02 Eugene A. Eliseev , Anna N. Morozovska , Maksym V. Strikha

Semiconducting ferroelectric materials with low energy polarisation switching offer a platform for next-generation electronics such as ferroelectric field-effect transistors. Ferroelectric domains at symmetry-broken interfaces of transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Laurent Molino , Leena Aggarwal , Vladimir Enaldiev , Ryan Plumadore , Vladimir Falko , Adina Luican-Mayer

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have opened new opportunities to develop atomically thin (opto)electronic devices with a wide range of functionalities. The recent focus on manipulating the interlayer twist angle has led to the…

A Weyl node is characterized by its chirality and tilt. We develop a theory of how $n$th-order nonlinear optical conductivity behaves under transformations of anisotropic tensor and tilt, which clarify how chirality-dependent and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Zhuocheng Lu , Ji Feng

This work explores a nontrivial temperature behavior of the carriers concentration, which governs graphene channel conductance in the nano-structure "graphene channel on ferroelectric substrate" that is a basic element for FETs in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-12 Anatolii I. Kurchak , Anna N. Morozovska , Sergei V. Kalinin , Maksym V. Strikha

Proximity ferroelectricity is a novel paradigm for inducing ferroelectricity in a non-ferroelectric polar material such as AlN or ZnO that are typically unswitchable with an external field below their dielectric breakdown field. When placed…

Ferroelectric materials are characterized by the presence of an electric dipole that can be reversed by application of an external electric field, a feature that is exploited in ferroelectric memories. All ferroelectrics are piezoelectric,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 H. Lu , C. -W. Bark , D. Esque de los Ojos , J. Alcala , C. -B. Eom , G. Catalan , A. Gruverman

Coupled quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) electron systems host rich emergent physics that cannot be accounted for by understanding isolated 1D electron systems alone. Open questions remain about how transport in these arrays can be…

The synergy of ferroicity with altermagnetism offers a novel platform for designing multifunctional altermagnetic-spintronic device technology. In this work, we propose a mechanism to achieve nonvolatile electrical manipulation of spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Rui Peng , Guangxu Su , Yangyang Fan , Jiaan Li , Fanxin Liu , Yee Sin Ang

Nanoscale superconductor-semiconductor hybrid devices are assembled from InAs semiconductor nanowires individually contacted by aluminum-based superconductor electrodes. Below 1 K, the high transparency of the contacts gives rise to…

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

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