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Atomically thin chromium triiodide (CrI3) has recently been identified as a layered antiferromagnetic insulator, in which adjacent ferromagnetic monolayers are antiferromagnetically coupled. This unusual magnetic structure naturally…

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) switched utilizing bipolar electric fields have extensive applications in energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy linearly lowers the energy barrier…

Event-based neuromorphic systems provide a low-power solution by using artificial neurons and synapses to process data asynchronously in the form of spikes. Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions (FTJs) are ultra low-power memory devices and are…

Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors provide a powerful building block for engineering emergent quantum states shaped by reduced dimensionality, enhanced quantum fluctuations, and interfacial symmetry breaking. In van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sichun Zhao , Junlin Xiong , Ji Zhou , Shi-Jun Liang , Bin Cheng , Feng Miao

Ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFET) with two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor channels are promising low-power, embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) candidates for next-generation in-memory computing. However, the performance of…

Poor electrical conductivity and large volume expansion during repeated charge and discharge is what has characterized many battery electrode materials in current use. This has led to 2D materials, specifically multi-layered 2D systems,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-14 Gladys King'ori , Cecil N M Ouma , Abshiek Mishra , George O Amolo , Nicholas Makau

Ferroelectricity and metallicity cannot coexist due to the screening effect of conducting electrons, and a large number of stable monolayers with 1T/1T$^{\prime}$ phase lack spontaneous polarization due to inversion symmetry. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-26 Haohao Sheng , Zhong Fang , Zhijun Wang

Resistance switching in multilayer structures are typically based on materials possessing ferroic orders. Here we predict an extremely large resistance switching based on the relative spin-orbit splitting in twisted transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Marc Vila

The ferroelectric material is an important platform to realize non-volatile memories. So far, existing ferroelectric memory devices utilize out-of-plane polarization in ferroelectric thin films. In this paper, we propose a new type of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Huitao Shen , Junwei Liu , Kai Chang , Liang Fu

We presents a new strategy to create a van der Waals-based magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) that consists of a three-atom layer thickness of graphene (Gr) sandwiched with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) by introducing a monoatomic Boron vacancy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Halimah Harfah , Yusuf Wicaksono , Gagus Ketut Sunnardianto , Muhammad Aziz Majidi , Koichi Kusakabe

Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric semiconductors present opportunities for integrating ferroelectrics into high-density ultrathin nanoelectronics. Among the few synthesized 2D ferroelectrics, $\alpha$-In$_2$Se$_3$, known for its…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-29 Liyi Bai , Changming Ke , Zhongshen Luo , Tianyuan Zhu , Lu You , Shi Liu

Two-dimensional antiferromagnetism has long attracted significant interest in many areas of condensed matter physics, but only recently has experimental exploration become feasible due to the isolation of van der Waals antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Cheol-Yeon Cheon , Volodymyr Multian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Alberto F. Morpurgo , Dmitry Lebedev

2D van der Waals ferroelectric semiconductors have emerged as an attractive building block with immense potential to provide multifunctionality in nanoelectronics. Although several accomplishments have been reported in ferroelectric…

Van der Waals (vdW) assembly could efficiently modulate the symmetry of two-dimensional (2D) materials that ultimately governs their physical properties. Of particular interest is the ferroelectric polarization being introduced by proper…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-21 Ziyu Niu , Xiang-Long Yu , Dingfu Shao , Xixiang Jing , Defeng Hou , Xuhong Li , Jing Sun , Junqin Shi , Xiaoli Fan , Tengfei Cao

Ferroelecticity, one of the keys to realize nonvolatile memories owing to the remanent electric polarization, has been an emerging phenomenon in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. Yet the demonstrations of van der Waals (vdW) memories using 2D…

2D materials (2DM) and their heterostructures (2D + nD, n = 0,1,2,3) hold significant promise for applications in Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems (EESS), such as batteries. 2DM can serve as van der Waals (vdW) slick interface between…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Dibakar Datta

The growing family of two-dimensional (2D) materials that are now available can be used to assemble van der Waals heterostructures with a wide range of properties. Of particular interest are tunnelling heterostructures, which have been used…

Spatial confinement and manipulation of charged carriers in semiconducting nanostructures are essential for realizing quantum electronic devices. Gate-defined nanostructures made of two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Ke Wang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Philip Kim

Ferroelectricity in atomically thin bilayer structures has been recently predicted1 and measured[2-4] in two-dimensional (2D) materials with hexagonal non-centrosymmetric unit-cells. Interestingly, the crystal symmetry translates lateral…

We have investigated metallic break junctions of the heavy-fermion compound UPd2Al3 at low temperatures between 0.1K and 9K and in magnetic fields up to 8T. Both the current-voltage I(V) characteristics and the dV/dI (V) spectra clearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. G. Naidyuk , K. Gloos , I. K. Yanson , N. K. Sato