Review on Recent Developments in 2D Ferroelectrics: Theories and Applications

Ferroelectric memory field-effect transistors using CVD monolayer MoS2 as resistive switching channel

(2020) Pin-Chun Shen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Tuning ferroelectricity by charge doping in two-dimensional SnSe

(2020) Liying Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Temperature- and thickness-dependence of robust out-of-plane ferroelectricity in CVD grown ultrathin van der Waals α-In2Se3 layers

(2020) Weng Fu Io et al.   Nano Research

Electrical Control of Magnetic Phase Transition in a Type-I Multiferroic Double-Metal Trihalide Monolayer

(2020) Meiling Xu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Ultrathin SnTe films as a route towards all-in-one spintronics devices

(2020) Jagoda Sławińska et al.   2D Materials

Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon

(2020) Suraj S. Cheema et al.   NATURE

Non-volatile electric control of spin–charge conversion in a SrTiO3 Rashba system

(2020) Paul Noël et al.   NATURE

Photoflexoelectric effect in halide perovskites

(2020) Longlong Shu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Scale-free ferroelectricity induced by flat phonon bands in HfO2

(2020) Hyun-Jae Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Robust Above-Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Few-Layer Antimonene Triggered by Nonmagnetic Adatoms

(2019) Xian Tang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Switchable Out-of-Plane Polarization in 2D LiAlTe2

(2019) Zhun Liu et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

First Observation of Ferroelectricity in ∼1 nm Ultrathin Semiconducting BaTiO3 Films

(2019) Seung Ran Lee et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nonvolatile Ferroelectric Memory Effect in Ultrathin α-In2 Se3

(2019) Siyuan Wan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Intrinsic Van Der Waals Magnetic Materials from Bulk to the 2D Limit: New Frontiers of Spintronics

(2019) Hui Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanodomain Engineering for Programmable Ferroelectric Devices

(2019) Alexey Lipatov et al.   NANO LETTERS

Robust Piezo-Phototronic Effect in Multilayer γ-InSe for High-Performance Self-Powered Flexible Photodetectors

(2019) Mingjin Dai et al.   ACS Nano

Gate‐Tunable and Multidirection‐Switchable Memristive Phenomena in a Van Der Waals Ferroelectric

(2019) Fei Xue et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Gate-Tunable In-Plane Ferroelectricity in Few-Layer SnS

(2019) Yang Bao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Two-Dimensional van der Waals Materials with Aligned In-Plane Polarization and Large Piezoelectric Effect for Self-Powered Piezoelectric Sensors

(2019) Mingjin Dai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ferroelectricity with Asymmetric Hysteresis in Metallic LiOsO3 Ultrathin Films

(2019) Jinlian Lu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Prediction of Coupled Electronic and Phononic Ferroelectricity in Strained 2D h-NbN: First-Principles Theoretical Analysis

(2019) Anuja Chanana et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Reconfigurable ferromagnetic liquid droplets

(2019) Xubo Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Room-Temperature Electrocaloric Effect in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 for Solid-State Refrigeration

(2019) Mengwei Si et al.   ACS Nano

Ultrathin Free-Standing Nanosheets of Bi2O2Se: Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Self-Assembled Charged Layered Heterostructure

(2019) Tanmoy Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Frustrated Dipole Order Induces Noncollinear Proper Ferrielectricity in Two Dimensions

(2019) Ling-Fang Lin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Two-Dimensional Ferroics and Multiferroics: Platforms for New Physics and Applications

(2019) Xiao Tang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Tunable quadruple-well ferroelectric van der Waals crystals

(2019) John A. Brehm et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Nonvolatile memristor based on heterostructure of 2D room-temperature ferroelectric α-In2Se3 and WSe2

(2019) Huai Yang et al.   Science China-Information Sciences

Recent Progress in Two‐Dimensional Ferroelectric Materials

(2019) Zhao Guan et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

Strain Engineering for 2D Ferroelectricity in Lead Chalcogenides

(2019) Tao Xu et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

Intrinsic Dipole Coupling in 2D van der Waals Ferroelectrics for Gate‐Controlled Switchable Rectifier

(2019) Mingjin Dai et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

The rise of 2D dielectrics/ferroelectrics

(2019) Minoru Osada et al.   APL Materials

Low Voltage and Ferroelectric 2D Electron Devices Using Lead‐Free Ba x Sr 1‐x TiO 3 and MoS 2 Channel

(2019) Yeonsu Jeong et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Tunable metallic and topological properties in two-dimensional ligand-functionalized antimonene films

(2019) Xing-kai Hu et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Tunable Photocatalytic Water Splitting by the Ferroelectric Switch in a 2D AgBiP2Se6 Monolayer

(2019) Lin Ju et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ferroelectric Oxide Thin Film with an Out-of-Plane Electrical Conductivity

(2019) Tingting Yao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Thickness‐Dependent In‐Plane Polarization and Structural Phase Transition in van der Waals Ferroelectric CuInP 2 S 6

(2019) Jianming Deng et al.   Small

Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors Based on MoS2 and CuInP2S6 Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructure

(2018) Mengwei Si et al.   ACS Nano

Multidirection Piezoelectricity in Mono- and Multilayered Hexagonal α-In2Se3

(2018) Fei Xue et al.   ACS Nano

Elemental Ferroelectricity and Antiferroelectricity in Group-V Monolayer

(2018) Chengcheng Xiao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Recent progress in the assembly of nanodevices and van der Waals heterostructures by deterministic placement of 2D materials

(2018) Riccardo Frisenda et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Type-II multiferroic Hf2VC2F2 MXene monolayer with high transition temperature

(2018) Jun-Jie Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Surface Vacancy-Induced Switchable Electric Polarization and Enhanced Ferromagnetism in Monolayer Metal Trihalides

(2018) Yinghe Zhao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Intrinsic Two-Dimensional Ferroelectricity with Dipole Locking

(2018) Jun Xiao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Intrinsic Origin of Enhancement of Ferroelectricity in SnTe Ultrathin Films

(2018) Kai Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Prediction of Intrinsic Ferromagnetic Ferroelectricity in a Transition-Metal Halide Monolayer

(2018) Chengxi Huang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Flexo-photovoltaic effect

(2018) Ming-Min Yang et al.   SCIENCE

High-efficiency and stable piezo-phototronic organic perovskite solar cell

(2018) Ke Gu et al.   RSC Advances

Two-dimensional ferroelectricity and switchable spin-textures in ultra-thin elemental Te multilayers

(2018) Yao Wang et al.   Materials Horizons

Locally Controlled Cu-Ion Transport in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6

(2018) Nina Balke et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Robust ferroelectricity in two-dimensional SbN and BiP

(2018) Chang Liu et al.   Nanoscale

Ferroelectric switching of a two-dimensional metal

(2018) Zaiyao Fei et al.   NATURE

Three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal in ferroelectric barium calcium titanate

(2018) Tianxiang Xu et al.   Nature Photonics

Direct observation of room-temperature out-of-plane ferroelectricity and tunneling electroresistance at the two-dimensional limit

(2018) H. Wang et al.   Nature Communications

In-Plane Ferroelectricity in Thin Flakes of Van der Waals Hybrid Perovskite

(2018) Lu You et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Origin of Two-Dimensional Vertical Ferroelectricity in WTe2 Bilayer and Multilayer

(2018) Qing Yang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Chemically Functionalized Phosphorene: Two-Dimensional Multiferroics with Vertical Polarization and Mobile Magnetism

(2017) Qing Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Out-of-Plane Electromechanical Response of Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide Measured by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

(2017) Christopher J. Brennan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Monolayer AgBiP2Se6: an atomically thin ferroelectric semiconductor with out-plane polarization

(2017) Bo Xu et al.   Nanoscale

Electric polarization switching in an atomically thin binary rock salt structure

(2017) Jose Martinez-Castro et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Prediction of intrinsic two-dimensional ferroelectrics in In2Se3 and other III2-VI3 van der Waals materials

(2017) Wenjun Ding et al.   Nature Communications

Possible absence of critical thickness and size effect in ultrathin perovskite ferroelectric films

(2017) Peng Gao et al.   Nature Communications

Atomically Thin MoS2: A Versatile Nongraphene 2D Material

(2016) Y. P. Venkata Subbaiah et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photovoltaics with Ferroelectrics: Current Status and Beyond

(2016) Charles Paillard et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

New Ferroelectric Phase in Atomic-Thick Phosphorene Nanoribbons: Existence of in-Plane Electric Polarization

(2016) Ting Hu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Auxetic and Ferroelastic Borophane: A Novel 2D Material with Negative Possion’s Ratio and Switchable Dirac Transport Channels

(2016) Liangzhi Kou et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ferroelectricity in Covalently functionalized Two-dimensional Materials: Integration of High-mobility Semiconductors and Nonvolatile Memory

(2016) Menghao Wu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Strain engineering of graphene: a review

(2016) Chen Si et al.   Nanoscale

Covalent functionalization and passivation of exfoliated black phosphorus via aryl diazonium chemistry

(2016) Christopher R. Ryder et al.   Nature Chemistry

Ferroelectricity and Phase Transitions in Monolayer Group-IV Monochalcogenides

(2016) Ruixiang Fei et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Physical aspects of ferroelectric semiconductors for photovoltaic solar energy conversion

(2016) Pilar Lopez-Varo et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Discovery of robust in-plane ferroelectricity in atomic-thick SnTe

(2016) Kai Chang et al.   SCIENCE

The origin of ultrahigh piezoelectricity in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solution crystals

(2016) Fei Li et al.   Nature Communications

Concepts of ferrovalley material and anomalous valley Hall effect

(2016) Wen-Yi Tong et al.   Nature Communications

Room-temperature ferroelectricity in CuInP2S6 ultrathin flakes

(2016) Fucai Liu et al.   Nature Communications

‘Ferroelectric’ metals reexamined: fundamental mechanisms and design considerations for new materials

(2016) Nicole A. Benedek et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Valleytronics in 2D materials

(2016) John R. Schaibley et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Co-Rich ZnCoO Nanoparticles Embedded in Wurtzite Zn1–xCoxO Thin Films: Possible Origin of Superconductivity

(2015) Yu-Jia Zeng et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Ferroelectric domain engineering by focused infrared femtosecond pulses

(2015) Xin Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electronic structures and theoretical modelling of two-dimensional group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides

(2015) Gui-Bin Liu et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Understanding ferroelectricity in layered perovskites: new ideas and insights from theory and experiments

(2015) Nicole A. Benedek et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Strain engineering in semiconducting two-dimensional crystals

(2015) Rafael Roldán et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

CuInP2S6 Room Temperature Layered Ferroelectric

(2015) A. Belianinov et al.   NANO LETTERS

New perspectives for Rashba spin–orbit coupling

(2015) A. Manchon et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Pseudo Jahn–Teller origin of ferroelectric instability in BaTiO 3 type perovskites: The Green's function approach and beyond

(2015) V. Polinger et al.   PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER

Emergence of ferroelectricity and spin-valley properties in two-dimensional honeycomb binary compounds

(2015) Domenico Di Sante et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Emergence of room-temperature ferroelectricity at reduced dimensions

(2015) D. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Coupling and electrical control of structural, orbital and magnetic orders in perovskites

(2015) Julien Varignon et al.   Scientific Reports

Piezoelectric nanogenerators – a review of nanostructured piezoelectric energy harvesters

(2015) Joe Briscoe et al.   Nano Energy

Prediction of a Novel Magnetoelectric Switching Mechanism in Multiferroics

(2014) Yurong Yang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Emergence of Ferroelectricity at a Metal-Semiconductor Transition in a1TMonolayer ofMoS2

(2014) Sharmila N. Shirodkar et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Multiferroics of spin origin

(2014) Yoshinori Tokura et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Improving the stability and optical properties of germanane via one-step covalent methyl-termination

(2014) Shishi Jiang et al.   Nature Communications

Flexoelectric Effect in Solids

(2013) Pavlo Zubko et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Direct writing of ferroelectric domains on strontium barium niobate crystals using focused ultraviolet laser light

(2013) Andreas Boes et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Local Strain Engineering in Atomically Thin MoS2

(2013) Andres Castellanos-Gomez et al.   NANO LETTERS

Tuning Quantum Corrections and Magnetoresistance in ZnO Nanowires by Ion Implantation

(2012) Y. J. Zeng et al.   NANO LETTERS

First Principles Calculation of the Shift Current Photovoltaic Effect in Ferroelectrics

(2012) Steve M. Young et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Direct writing of ferroelectric domains on the x- and y-faces of lithium niobate using a continuous wave ultraviolet laser

(2011) H. Steigerwald et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

General Theory for the Ferroelectric Polarization Induced by Spin-Spiral Order

(2011) H. J. Xiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Domain walls of ferroelectricBaTiO3within the Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire phenomenological model

(2010) P. Marton et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Berry phase effects on electronic properties

(2010) Di Xiao et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Domain Engineering for Enhanced Ferroelectric Properties of Epitaxial (001) BiFeO Thin Films

(2009) Ho Won Jang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices

(2008) Eric Bousquet et al.   NATURE

Valley-dependent optoelectronics from inversion symmetry breaking

(2008) Wang Yao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B