• 文献标题:   Mixed-Stacking Few-Layer Graphene as an Elemental Weak Ferroelectric Material
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   GARCIARUIZ A, ENALDIEV V, MCELLISTRIM A, FAL KO VI
  • 作者关键词:   ferroelectricity, graphene, rhombohedral graphite, twin boundary, twistronic, screening
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04723 EA MAY 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Ferroelectricity (Valasek, J. Phys. Rev. 1921, 17, 475), a spontaneous formation of electric polarization, is a solid state phenomenon, usually, associated with ionic compounds or complex materials. Here we show that, atypically for elemental solids, few-layer graphenes can host an equilibrium out-of-plane electric polarization, switchable by sliding the constituent graphene sheets. The systems hosting such effect include mixed-stacking tetralayers and thicker (5-9 layers) rhombohedral graphitic films with a twin boundary in the middle of a flake. The predicted electric polarization would also appear in marginally (small-angle) twisted few-layer flakes, where lattice reconstruction would give rise to networks of mesoscale domains with alternating value and sign of out-of-plane polarization.