• 文献标题:   Ferroelectric valley valves with graphene/MoTe2 van der Waals heterostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FUMEGA AO, LADO JL
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE
  • ISSN:   2040-3364 EI 2040-3372
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1039/d2nr05185k EA DEC 2022
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Ferroelectric van der Waals heterostructures provide a natural platform to design a variety of electrically controllable devices. In this work, we demonstrate that AB bilayer graphene encapsulated in MoTe2 acts as a valley valve that displays a switchable built-in topological gap, leading to ferroelectrically driven topological channels. Using a combination of ab initio calculations and low energy models, we show that the ferroelectric order of MoTe2 allows the control of the gap opening in bilayer graphene and leads to topological channels between different ferroelectric domains. Moreover, we analyze the effect that the moire modulation between MoTe2 and graphene layers has in the topological modes, demonstrating that the edge states are robust against moire modulations of the ferroelectrically-induced electric potential. Our results put forward ferroelectric/graphene heterostructures as versatile platforms to engineer switchable built-in topological channels without requiring an external electric bias.