3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
Hybrid Electronic-Ionic Ferroelectricity in Superlubric van der Waals Heterostructures
Jing Huang, Jun Kang, Daniel Bennett
One strategy to lower the switching barrier in a sliding ferroelectric (sFE) is to insert an incommensurate spacer to reduce sliding friction, creating a superlubric sliding ferroe…
cond-mat.mes-hall2024
Flat and tunable moire phonons in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides
Alejandro Ramos-Alonso, Benjamin Remez, Daniel Bennett +2
Displacement fields are one of the main tuning knobs employed to engineer flat electronic band dispersions in twisted van der Waals multilayers. Here, we show that electric fields…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Stacking-engineered ferroelectricity and multiferroic order in van der Waals magnets
Daniel Bennett, Gabriel Martínez-Carracedo, Xu He +4
Two-dimensional (2D) materials that exhibit spontaneous magnetization, polarization or strain (referred to as ferroics) have the potential to revolutionize nanotechnology by enhanc…