Two-dimensional ferroelectrics from high throughput computational screening

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Two-dimensional ferroelectrics from high throughput computational screening
المؤلفون: Kruse, Mads, Petralanda, Urko, Gjerding, Morten N., Jacobsen, Karsten W., Thygesen, Kristian S., Olsen, Thomas
المصدر: npj Comput Mater 9, 45 (2023)
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: We report a high throughput computational search for two-dimensional ferroelectric materials. The starting point is 252 pyroelectric materials from the computational 2D materials database (C2DB) and from these we identify 64 ferroelectric materials by explicitly constructing adiabatic paths connecting states of reversed polarization. In particular we find 49 materials with in-plane polarization, 8 materials with out-of-plane polarization and 6 materials with coupled in-plane and out-of-plane polarization. Most of the known 2D ferroelectrics are recovered by the screening and the far majority of the new predicted ferroelectrics are known as bulk van der Waals bonded compounds, which implies that these could be experimentally accessible by direct exfoliation. For roughly 25{\%} of the materials we find a metastable state in the non-polar structure, which could have important consequences for the thermodynamical properties and may imply a first order transition to the polar phase. Finally, we list the magnetic pyroelectrics extracted from the C2DB and focus on the case of VAgP$_2$Se$_6$, which exhibits a three-state switchable polarization vector that is strongly coupled to the magnetic excitation spectrum.
Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-023-00999-5
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13911
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2209.13911
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1038/s41524-023-00999-5