Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Giant piezoresistivity in a van der Waals material induced by intralayer atomic motions

  • Lingyun Tang,
  • Zhongquan Mao,
  • Chutian Wang,
  • Qi Fu,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Yichi Zhang,
  • Jingyi Shen,
  • Yuefeng Yin,
  • Bin Shen,
  • Dayong Tan,
  • Qian Li,
  • Yonggang Wang,
  • Nikhil V. Medhekar,
  • Jie Wu,
  • Huiqiu Yuan,
  • Yanchun Li,
  • Michael S. Fuhrer,
  • Changxi Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37239-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Lattice shrinkage is a dominating factor for the strain-induced change of the electronic properties in vdW layered materials. Here, the authors discover a piezoresistivity in pressurized β′-In2Se3, which originates from the intralayer atomic motions.