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- Title
Tunnel junctions based on interfacial two dimensional ferroelectrics.
- Authors
Gao, Yunze; Weston, Astrid; Enaldiev, Vladimir; Li, Xiao; Wang, Wendong; Nunn, James E.; Soltero, Isaac; Castanon, Eli G.; Carl, Amy; De Latour, Hugo; Summerfield, Alex; Hamer, Matthew; Howarth, James; Clark, Nicholas; Wilson, Neil R.; Kretinin, Andrey V.; Fal'ko, Vladimir I.; Gorbachev, Roman
- Abstract
Van der Waals 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 observation of out-of-plane room temperature ferroelectricity in twisted rhombohedral bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides. Here we explore the switching behaviour of sliding ferroelectricity using scanning probe microscopy domain mapping and tunnelling transport measurements. We observe well-pronounced ambipolar switching behaviour in ferroelectric tunnelling junctions with composite ferroelectric/non-polar insulator barriers and support our experimental results with complementary theoretical modelling. Furthermore, we show that the switching behaviour is strongly influenced by the underlying domain structure, allowing the fabrication of diverse ferroelectric tunnelling junction devices with various functionalities. We show that to observe the polarisation reversal, at least one partial dislocation must be present in the device area. This behaviour is drastically different from that of conventional ferroelectric materials, and its understanding is an important milestone for the future development of optoelectronic devices based on sliding ferroelectricity. The authors study tunneling junctions in rhombohedral MoS2 bilayers and correlate their performance with the local domain layout. They show that the switching behavior in sliding ferroelectrics is strongly dependent on the pre-existing domain structure.
- Subjects
TUNNEL junctions (Materials science); FERROELECTRIC crystals; SCANNING probe microscopy; FERROELECTRIC materials; COMPOSITE insulators; VAN der Waals forces; TUNNEL design &; construction; QUANTUM tunneling
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-48634-1