Journal
NANOSCALE HORIZONS
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages 1303-1308Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0nh00255k
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51922011, 61888102]
- National Key Research & Development Projects Program of China [2016YFA0202300, 2018YFA0305800, 2019YFA0308500]
- K. C. Wong Education Foundation
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB30000000]
- McMinn Endowment
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Ferroelectric (FE) thin films have been investigated for many years due to their broad applications in electronic devices. It was recently demonstrated that FE functionality persists in ultrathin films, possibly even in monolayers of two-dimensional (2D) FEs. However, the feasibility of 2D-based FE functional devices remains an open challenge. Here, we employ density-functional-theory calculations to propose and document the possible integration of graphene with 2D FE materials on metal substrates in the form of functional FE devices. We show that monolayers of proposed M2O3 (M = Al, Y) in the quintuple layer (QL) In2Se3 structure are stable 2D FE materials and that QL-M2O3 is a functional tunnel barrier in a graphene/QL-M2O3/Ru heterostructure. The QL-M2O3 barrier width can be modulated by its polarization direction, whereby the heterostructure can function as a prototype ferroelectric tunnel junction. Moreover, alternating the polarization of QL-M2O3 modulates the doping type of graphene, enabling the fabrication of graphene p-n junctions. By design, the proposed heterostructures can in principle be fabricated by intercalation, which is known to produce high-quality, large-scale 2D-based heterostructures.
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