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Gaining growing attention in spintronics is a class of magnets displaying zero net magnetization and spin-split electronic bands called altermagnets. Here, by combining density functional theory and symmetry analysis, we show that RuF$_4$…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Marko Milivojević , Marko Orozović , Silvia Picozzi , Martin Gmitra , Srdjan Stavrić

The altermagnetism can achieve spin-split bands in collinear symmetry-compensated antiferromagnets. Here, we predict altermagnetic order in Janus monolayer $\mathrm{Cr_2SO}$ with eliminated inversion symmetry, which can realize the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 San-Dong Guo , Xiao-Shu Guo , Kai Cheng , Ke Wang , Yee Sin Ang

Altermagnetism (AM), a collinear magnetic phase with momentum-dependent spin splitting, is a promising candidate for strong magnetoelectric coupling. However, realizing direct and tunable coupling between ferroelectricity (FE) and AM within…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-07 Tao Yao , Quan Shen , Wenhu Liao , Jianing Tan , Jiansheng Dong

Interlayer sliding ferroelectricity has been discovered in a variety of 2D materials with superb features such as atomic thickness, fast response, and fatigue resistance. So far, research on this phenomenon has been limited to fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Hechen Ren , Jiaojiao Wang , Wenxue He

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…

Despite progress in HfO2 thin-film ferroelectrics, issues like high coercive fields persist, and the dynamics of twisted ferroelectricity remain largely unexplored. Here, we explore how sliding and twisting in bilayer HfO2 enables low…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-05 Jie Sun , Yiheng Shen , Tengfei Cao , Li-Min Liu

We uncover a new pathway towards multiferroicity, showing how magnetism can drive ferroelectricity without relying on inversion symmetry breaking of the magnetic ordering. Our free-energy analysis demonstrates that any commensurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Joseph J. Betouras , Gianluca Giovannetti , Jeroen van den Brink

Recently, two-dimensional (2D) bilayer magnetic systems have been widely studied. Their interlayer magnetic interactions play a vital role in the magnetic properties. In this paper, we theoretically studied the interlayer magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Wenqi Yang , Xinlong Yang , Menglei Li , Lin Hu , Fawei Zheng

Vertically stacked layers derived from non-ferroelectric monolayers offer a promising route to two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics, where polarization switching occurs via interlayer sliding at sub-unit cell scales. Here, we develop a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Byeoksong Lee , Minki Lee , Joongoo Kang

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

The bistability of charge polarization in ferroelectric materials has long been the basis of ferroelectric devices. However, the ferroelectricity tends to be vanishing as the thickness of materials is reduced to a few nanometers or thinner…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-22 Guoliang Yu , Shengxian Li , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen , Zhenyu Zhang

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

Sliding ferroelectricity is emerging as a distinct and promising mechanism for realizing ferroelectricity in low-dimensional systems, offering new design principles beyond the conventional ferroelectric mechanism. Further, the coexistence…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Akshay Mahajan , Awadhesh Narayan

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…

Manipulation of tunneling spin-polarized electrons via a ferroelectric interlayer sandwiched between two ferromagnetic electrodes, dubbed Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions (MFTJs), can be achieved not only by the magnetic alignments of two…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-26 Mei Fang , Sangjian Zhang , Wenchao Zhang , Lu Jiang , Eric Vetter , Ho Nyung Lee , Xiaoshan Xu , Dali Sun , Jian Shen

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of magnetoelectric (ME) coupling mechanisms in 19 altermagnetic and 4 ferrimagnetic Type-I multiferroics using electronic band structure calculations with spin-orbit coupling, a…

The generation and control of spin- and valley-polarization in antiferromagnets (AFMs) have garnered increasing attention due to their potential for enabling faster and more stable multifunctional spintronic and valleytronic memory and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jiaqi Feng , Xiaodong Zhou , Jingyan Chen , Meiling Xu , Xiuxian Yang , Yinwei Li

Two-dimensional ferroelectrics can maintain vertical polarization up to room temperature, and are, therefore, promising for next-generation nonvolatile memories. Although natural two-dimensional ferroelectrics are few, moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Renjun Du , Jingkuan Xiao , Di Zhang , Xiaofan Cai , Siqi Jiang , Fuzhuo Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lei Wang , Geliang Yu

Multiferroic materials, characterized by the coexisting of ferroelectric polarization (breaking spatial inversion symmetry) and magnetism (breaking time-reversal symmetry), with strong magnetoelectric coupling, are highly sought after for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-14 Wei Sun , Wenxuan Wang , Changhong Yang , Ying Liu , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng