A 2D ferroelectric vortex lattice in twisted BaTiO3 freestanding layers
Gabriel Sanchez-Santolino, Victor. Rouco, Sergio. Puebla, Hugo Aramberri, Victor Zamora, Fabian A. Cuellar, Carmen Munuera, Federico Mompean, Mar Garcia-Hernand… 展开作者
Gabriel Sanchez-Santolino, Victor. Rouco, Sergio. Puebla, Hugo Aramberri, Victor Zamora, Fabian A. Cuellar, Carmen Munuera, Federico Mompean, Mar Garcia-Hernandez, Aandres Castellanos-Gomez, Jorge Iniguez, Carlos Leon, Jacobo Santamaria
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 conditions imposed upon them. Ferroelectric dielectric interfaces are model systems where polarization curling originates from open circuit like electric boundary conditions, to avoid the build-up of polarization charges through the formation of flux closure domains that evolve into vortex like structures at the nanoscale. Interestingly, while ferroelectricity is known to couple strongly to strain (both homogeneous and inhomogeneous), the effect of mechanical constraints on thin film nanoscale ferroelectrics has been comparatively less explored because of the relative paucity of strain patterns that can be implemented experimentally. Here we show that the stacking of freestanding ferroelectric perovskite layers with controlled twist angles opens an unprecedented opportunity to tailor these topological nanostructures in a way determined by the lateral strain modulation associated to the twisting. Interestingly, we find that a peculiar pattern of polarization vortices and antivortices emerges from the flexoelectric coupling of polarization to strain gradients. This finding opens exciting opportunities to create two-dimensional high density vortex crystals that would allow us to explore novel physical effects and functionalities.
SnTe hosts ferroelectricity that competes with its weak non-trivial band topology: in the high-symmetry rocksalt structure--in which its intrinsic electric dipole is quenched--this material develops metallic surface bands, but in its rhombic ground-state configuration--that hosts a non-zero spontaneous electric dipole--the crystalline symmetry is lowered and the presence of surface electronic bands is not guaranteed. Here, the type of ferroelectric coupling and the atomistic and electronic structure of SnTe films ranging from 2 to 40 ALs are examined on freestanding samples, to which atomic la…
We report the optoelectrical characterisation of Eshelby twisted Germanium sulfide (GeS) nanowires with first experimental observation of ferroelectric order at room temperature in GeS which is an otherwise centrosymmetric molecule. The chemical composition and structure of these nanowires were confirmed by various spectroscopic, microscopic and diffractive techniques. In addition, the nanowires were found to be stable over time. From the optoelectronic measurements we found that these p-type semiconducting GeS nanowires have up to two orders higher charge carrier mobility than GeS nanosheets …
Domain-induced control of latent heat in freestanding BaTiO$_3$ membranes
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST（加泰罗尼亚纳米科学与纳米技术研究所）；Department of Physics, Facultat de Ciencies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona（巴塞罗那自治大学理学院物理系）
Abstract: We report on emergence of an abnormal electronic polarization in twisted double bilayer WSe2 in antiparallel interface stacking geometry, where local centrosymmetry of atomic registries at the twist interface does not favor the spontaneous electronic polarizations as recently observed in the parallel interface stacking geometry. The unconventional ferroelectric behaviors probed by electronic transport measurement occur at half filling insulating states at 1.5 K and gradually disappear at about 40 K. Single band Hubbard model based on the triangular moiré lattice and the interlayer ch…
The Classical-to-Quantum Crossover in strain-induced ferroelectric transition in SrTiO$_3$ membranes
Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory（斯坦福材料能源科学研究所，SLAC国家加速器实验室）；Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University（斯坦福大学应用物理系）；Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory（阿贡国家实验室先进光子源）；Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool（利物浦大学奥利弗·洛奇实验室）；Department of Physics, Stanford University（斯坦福大学物理系）；Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University（北卡罗来纳州立大学材料科学与工程系）
In-situ Straining of Epitaxial Freestanding Ferroic Films by a MEMS Device
Paul Scherrer Institut（保罗谢勒研究所）；Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy（马克斯·玻恩非线性光学与超快光谱研究所）；Politecnico di Milano（米兰理工大学）；Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院材料系介观系统实验室）；National Cheng Kung University（国立成功大学）；Center for Quantum Frontiers of Research & Technology (QFort), National Cheng Kung University（国立成功大学量子前沿研究与技术中心）
Twisted heterostructures of two-dimensional crystals offer almost unlimited scope for the design of novel metamaterials. Here we demonstrate a room-temperature ferroelectric semiconductor that is assembled using mono- or few- layer MoS2. These van der Waals heterostructures feature broken inversion symmetry, which, together with the asymmetry of atomic arrangement at the interface of two 2D crystals, enables ferroelectric domains with alternating out-of-plane polarisation arranged into a twist-controlled network. The latter can be moved by applying out-of-plane electrical fields, as visualized…
Lattice reconstruction in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers gives rise to piezo- and ferroelectric moiré potentials for electrons and holes, as well as a modulation of the hybridisation across the bilayer. Here, we develop hybrid $\mathbf{k}\cdot \mathbf{p}$ tight-binding models to describe electrons and holes in the relevant valleys of twisted TMD homobilayers with parallel (P) and anti-parallel (AP) orientations of the monolayer unit cells. We apply these models to describe moiré superlattice effects in twisted WSe${}_2$ bilayers, in conjunction with microscopic \emph{ab…
Superconducting cavity probes sliding ferroelectricity in small-angle twisted WSe$_2$
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research（塔塔基础研究所）；Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学、法国国家科学研究中心、格勒诺布尔理工学院、内耳研究所）；Indian Institute of Science（印度科学学院）；National Institute for Materials Science（日本国立材料研究所）
Resonant absorption and linear photovoltaic effect in ferroelectric moiré heterostructures
Moscow Center for Advanced Studies（莫斯科高级研究中心）；Kotelnikov Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics of the RAS（俄罗斯科学院科特利尼科夫无线电工程与电子研究所）；HSE University（国立高等经济学院）；Institute of Physics of DFRS of the RAS（俄罗斯科学院达吉斯坦共和国科学中心物理研究所）
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 low-energy continuum model for AB bilayer graphene encapsulated by the top and bottom layers of either hBN or graphene, with two independent twist angles. For the graphene/hBN heterostructures, we show that twist angle asymmetry leads to a layer polarization of the valence and conduction bands. We also show that an out-of-plane displacement field not only tune…
Composite multiferroics, heterostructures of ferromagnetic (FM) and ferroelectric (FE) materials, are characterized by a remarkable magnetoelectric effect at the interface. Previous work has supported the ferromagnetic structure with magnetic spins and the ferroelectric with pseudospins which act as electric dipoles in a microscopic model, coupled with a magnetoelectric interaction [J. Appl. Phys. 118, 124109 (2015)]. In this work, by solving the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, the electric-field-induced magnetization switching in a twisted boundary condition has been studied, and…
Ferroelectric switching control of spin current in graphene proximitized by In$_2$Se$_3$
Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences（斯洛伐克科学院信息学研究所）；Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade（贝尔格莱德大学物理学院）；Institute of Physics, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice（科希策帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克大学物理研究所）；Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice（卡托维兹西里西亚大学物理研究所）；Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences（斯洛伐克科学院实验物理研究所）；New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia（西波希米亚大学新技术研究中心）
Optical Signature of Moiré Superlattices Formed by Twisted SrTiO$_3$ Membranes
Rice University（莱斯大学）；University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学）；North Carolina State University（北卡罗来纳州立大学）；Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research（马克斯·普朗克固体的研究研究所）
Photo- and thermally-induced huge layer decoupling in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science（RIKEN 新兴物质科学中心）；Quantum-Phase Electronics Center and Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo（东京大学量子相电子中心及应用物理系）；Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo（东京大学工业科学研究所）；Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science（国立材料研究所电子与光学材料研究中心）；Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science（国立材料研究所材料纳米架构研究中心）
Artificially twisted heterostructures of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unprecedented control over their electronic and optical properties via the spatial modulation of interlayer interactions and structural reconstruction. Here we study twisted MoS2 bilayers in a wide range of twist angles near 0° using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy. We investigate the twist angle-dependence of the moiré pattern which is dominated by lattice reconstruction for small angles (<2°) leading to large triangular domains with rhombohedral stacking. Local spectroscopy measur…
Twistronic assembly of 2D materials employs the twist angle between adjacent layers as a tuning parameter for designing the electronic and optical properties of van der Waals heterostructures. Here, we study how interlayer hybridization, weak ferroelectric charge transfer between layers, and piezoelectric response to deformations set the valence and conduction band edges across the moir{é} supercell in twistronic homobilayers of MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$ and WSe$_2$. We show that, due to the lack of inversion symmetry in the monolayer crystals, bilayers with parallel (P) and anti-parallel (AP)…
Imaging topological polar structures in marginally twisted 2D semiconductors
Monash University（莫纳什大学）；John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University（哈佛大学约翰·A·保尔森工程与应用科学学院）；Nanyang Technological University Singapore（新加坡南洋理工大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；Flinders University（弗林德斯大学）；Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication（墨尔本纳米制造中心）；Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）；Swinburne University of Technology（斯威本科技大学）；National Institute for Materials Science（日本物质材料研究机构）
Moiré-induced lattice reconstruction at buried atomic interfaces
University of Manchester（曼彻斯特大学）；National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester（国家石墨烯研究所，曼彻斯特大学）；Diamond Light Source（英国钻石光源）；University of Oxford（牛津大学）；Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials（亨利·罗伊斯先进材料研究所）
