Room-temperature ferroelectricity in MoTe2 down to the atomic monolayer limit

It is difficult to maintain ferroelectricity in the two dimensional limit. Here, the authors report robust room-temperature ferroelectricity in the thinnest monolayer MoTe2 due to relative atomic displacements of Mo and Te atoms.

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Main Authors: Shuoguo Yuan, Xin Luo, Hung Lit Chan, Chengcheng Xiao, Yawei Dai, Maohai Xie, Jianhua Hao
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7a955de3b0c647f3ae10e1a1db2c6283
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