Room-temperature ferroelectricity in MoTe2 down to the atomic monolayer limit

Shuoguo Yuan; Xin Luo; Hung Lit Chan; Chengcheng Xiao; Yawei Dai; Maohai Xie; Jianhua Hao

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09669-x

Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Room-temperature ferroelectricity in MoTe2 down to the atomic monolayer limit

Shuoguo Yuan,
Xin Luo,
Hung Lit Chan,
Chengcheng Xiao,
Yawei Dai,
Maohai Xie,
Jianhua Hao

Affiliations

Shuoguo Yuan: Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Xin Luo: Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Lit Chan: Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chengcheng Xiao: Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yawei Dai: Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong
Maohai Xie: Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong
Jianhua Hao: Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09669-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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It is difficult to maintain ferroelectricity in the two dimensional limit. Here, the authors report robust room-temperature ferroelectricity in the thinnest monolayer MoTe2 due to relative atomic displacements of Mo and Te atoms.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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