Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Sliding induced multiple polarization states in two-dimensional ferroelectrics

  • Peng Meng,
  • Yaze Wu,
  • Renji Bian,
  • Er Pan,
  • Biao Dong,
  • Xiaoxu Zhao,
  • Jiangang Chen,
  • Lishu Wu,
  • Yuqi Sun,
  • Qundong Fu,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Dong Shi,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Yong-Wei Zhang,
  • Zheng Liu,
  • Fucai Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35339-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Layer dependence is an important aspect to properties of van der Waals materials. Here, the authors obtain layer dependent multiple polarization states in 3 R MoS2 and propose a generalized model to describe their ferroelectric switching processes.