Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 28, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707383
Keywords
2D materials; antiferroelectricity; ferroelectricity; group-V elements; s-p hybridization
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11374009, 61574123]
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Ferroelectricity is usually found in compound materials composed by different elements. Here, based on first-principles calculations, spontaneous electric polarization and ferroelectricity in 2D elemental group-V (As, Sb, and Bi) monolayer with the puckered lattice structure similar to phosphorene is revealed. These are the first example of elemental ferroelectric materials. The polarization is due to the spontaneous lattice distortion with atomic layer buckling and has quite sizable values, comparable or even larger than that recently found in 2D monolayer compound SnTe. Interestingly, for Bi monolayer, apart from the ferroelectric phase, it is found that it can also host an antiferroelectric phase. The Curie temperatures of these elemental materials can be higher than room temperature, making them promising for realizing ultrathin ferroelectric devices of broad interest. A general model is constructed to understand and search for 2D ferroelectric and antiferroelectric materials in future studies.
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