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Sliding ferroelectricity in bilayer van der Waals materials exhibits ultrafast switching speed and fatigue resistance during the polarization switching, offering an avenue for the design of memories and neuromorphic devices. The unique…

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Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Anomalous gating effects-such as gate ineffectiveness and pronounced hysteresis-have been observed in graphene-based systems encapsulated in boron nitride (BN) and linked to a possible ferroelectric state. However, their origin, stability,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 G. Maffione , L. S. Farrar , M. Kapfer , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , H. Aubin , D. Mailly , R. Ribeiro-Palau

The ability to create superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures via moir\'e interference heralded a new era in the science and technology of two-dimensional materials. Through precise control of the twist angle, flat bands and…

The emergence of exotic charge density wave (CDW) alongside ferrimagnetism materials opens exciting new possibilities for quantum switching, particularly in field-tuning CDW electronics. However, these two phenomena often compete and rely…

At a superconductor (S)-normal metal (N) junction pairing correlations can "leak-out" into the N region. This proximity effect [1, 2] modifies the system transport properties and can lead to supercurrent flow in SNS junctions [3]. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 S. Roddaro , A. Pescaglini , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto , F. Beltram

Signatures of unconventional superconductivity have been reported in a wide range of van der Waals (vdW) materials. However, their microscopic origin remains unclear due to competing electronic orders, strong spin-orbit coupling, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-08 Ankan Biswas , Jagannath Sutradhar , Sudip Kumar Saha , Avraham Klein , Jonathan Ruhman

Semiconductor nanowires exhibit large polarization anisotropy for the absorption and emission of light, making them ideal building blocks for novel photonic metamaterials. Here, we demonstrate that a high density of aligned nanowires…

Through stacking engineering of two-dimensional (2D) materials, a switchable interface polarization can be generated through interlayer sliding, so called sliding ferroelectricity, which is advantageous over the traditional ferroelectricity…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Qingrong Liang , Guozhong Zheng , Liu Yang , Shoujun Zheng

Proximity ferroelectricity is a novel paradigm for inducing ferroelectricity, where a non-ferroelectric polar material, which is unswitchable with an external field below the dielectric breakdown field, becomes a practically switchable…

Nanowires can serve as flexible substrates for hybrid epitaxial growth on selected facets, allowing for design of heterostructures with complex material combinations and geometries. In this work we report on hybrid epitaxy of semiconductor…

We consider interaction effects related to a nonuniform magnetization in ferromagnetic nanowires and their possible generalization to nanorings. First we show that the electric current in a ferromagnetic nanowire with more than one domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vitalii Dugaev , Jamal Berakdar

The integration of ferroelectrics that exhibit high dielectric, piezoelectric, and thermal susceptibilities with the mainstream semiconductor industry will enable novel device types for widespread applications, and yet there are few…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-11 Changming Ke , Yihao Hu , Shi Liu

The two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic materials have widespread of application prospects in facilitating the integration and miniaturization of nanodevices. However, it is rarely coupling between the magnetic, ferroelectric, and ferrovalley…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 Wei Xun , Chao Wu , Hanbo Sun , Weixi Zhang , Yin-Zhong Wu , Ping Li

Ferroelectric field-effect transistors employ a ferroelectric material as a gate insulator, the polarization state of which can be detected using the channel conductance of the device. As a result, the devices are of potential to use in…

My research is dedicated to the electronic properties of functional oxides. My activity specifically focuses on ferroelectric tunnel junctions in which an ultrathin layer of ferroelectric material is intercalated between two metallic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Vincent Garcia

Conventional nonpolar nematic liquid crystals, widely known for their successful display applications, are not well-suited for fast electro-optical switching because of the slow (milliseconds) field-off relaxation of the director. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-16 Kamal Thapa , Sathyanarayana Paladugu , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Artificial ferromagnetic nanofiber networks with new electronic, magnetic, mechanical and other physical properties can be prepared by electrospinning and may be regarded as the base of bio-inspired cognitive computing units. For this…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Tomasz Blachowicz , Andrea Ehrmann

The discoveries of magnetism and ferroelectricity in 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials have brought important functionalities to the 2D materials family, and may trigger a revolution in next generation nanoelectronics and spintronics. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-17 Chuanshou Wang , Lu You , David Cobden , Junling Wang

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras