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After more than a hundred years of development, ferroelectric materials have demonstrated their strong potential to people, and more and more ferroelectric materials are being used in the research of ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs). As a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Zexin Wang

It has been long hoped that the realization of long-range ferromagnetic order in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals, combined with their rich electronic and optical properties, would open up new possibilities for magnetic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Cheng Gong , Lin Li , Zhenglu Li , Huiwen Ji , Alex Stern , Yang Xia , Ting Cao , Wei Bao , Chenzhe Wang , Yuan Wang , Z. Q. Qiu , R. J. Cava , Steven G. Louie , Jing Xia , Xiang Zhang

We review existing manifestations and prospects for ferroelectricity in electronically and optically active carbon-based materials. The focus point is the proposal for the electronic ferroelectricity in conjugated polymers from the family…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-15 Natasha Kirova , Serguei Brazovskii

The family of 2D materials grows day by day, drastically expanding the scope of possible phenomena to be explored in two dimensions, as well as the possible van der Waals heterostructures that one can create. Such 2D materials currently…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-09 M. Gibertini , M. Koperski , A. F. Morpurgo , K. S. Novoselov

The discovery of magnetism in van der Waals (vdW) materials has established unique building blocks for the research of emergent spintronic phenomena. In particular, owing to their intrinsically clean surface without dangling bonds, the vdW…

Layered materials with non-centrosymmetric stacking order are attracting increasing interest due to the presence of ferroelectric polarization, which is dictated by weak interlayer hybridization of atomic orbitals. Here, we use density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Xue Li , James G. McHugh , Vladimir I. Falko

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-21 Yubai Shi , Yuxiang Gao , Ri He , Hua Wang , Binwen Zhang , Zhicheng Zhong

Controlling the magnetic state of two-dimensional (2D) materials is crucial for spintronic applications. By employing data-mining and autonomous density functional theory calculations, we demonstrate the switching of magnetic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-11 Tom Barnowsky , Stefano Curtarolo , Arkady V. Krasheninnikov , Thomas Heine , Rico Friedrich

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…

Electric control of magnetization dynamics in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials is an essential step for the development of novel spintronic nanodevices. Electrostatic gating has been shown to greatly affect the static magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Freddie Hendriks , Rafael R. Rojas-Lopez , Bert Koopmans , Marcos H. D. Guimaraes

The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) materials has attracted a great deal of attention due to their fascinating physical properties and potential applications for future nanoelectronic devices. Since the first isolation of graphene, a…

Twisted van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a promising platform for exploring exotic quantum phenomena and engineering novel material properties in two dimensions, potentially revolutionizing developments in spintronics. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Fengjun Zhuo , Zhenyu Dai , Kai Chang , Hongxin Yang , Zhenxiang Cheng

The intrinsic magnetism observed in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials provides a unique opportunity for exploring the 2D topological magnetic textures, in particular skyrmionic magnetic textures (SMTs) including skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Xiaoyan Yao , Di Hu , Shuai Dong

Ferroelectricity has a wide range of applications in functional electronics and is extremely important for the development of next-generation information storage technology, but it is difficult to achieve due to its special symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-24 Yuwen Zhang , Chunfeng Cui , Chaoyu He , Tao Ouyang , Jin Li , Mingxing Chen , Chao Tang

The past decade has been especially creative for spintronics since the (re)discovery of various two dimensional (2D) materials. Due to the unusual physical characteristics, 2D materials have provided new platforms to probe the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-25 Wei Han

The wealth of complex polar topologies recently found in nanoscale ferroelectrics result from a delicate balance between the materials intrinsic tendency to develop a homogeneous polarization and the electric and mechanic boundary…

Two-dimensional sliding ferroelectrics, with their unique stacking degrees of freedom, offer a different approach to manipulate polarization by interlayer sliding. Bending sliding ferroelectrics inevitably leads to interlayer sliding…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-02 Ri He , Hua Wang , Fenglin Deng , Yuxiang Gao , Binwen Zhang , Yubai Shi , Run-Wei Li , Zhicheng Zhong

Two-dimensional (2D) materials enable new types of magnetic and electronic phases mediated by their reduced dimensionality like magic-angle induced phase transitions, 2D Ising antiferromagnets and ferromagnetism in 2D atomic layers and…

Piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties in the two dimensional (2D) limit are highly desired for nanoelectronic, electromechanical, and optoelectronic applications. Here we report the first experimental evidence of out-of-plane…