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Elemental topological ferroelectrics and polar metals of few-layer materials
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Ferroelectricity can exist in elemental phases as a result of charge transfers between atoms occupying inequivalent Wyckoff positions. We investigate the emergence of ferroelectricity in two-dimensional elemental materials with buckled honeycomb lattices. Various multi-bilayer structures hosting ferroelectricity are designed by stacking-engineering. Ferroelectric materials candidates formed by group IV and V elements are predicted theoretically. Ultrathin Bi films show layer-stacking-dependent physical properties of ferroelectricity, topology, and metallicity. The two-bilayer Bi film with a polar stacking sequence is found to be an elemental topological ferroelectric material. Three and four bilayers Bi films with polar structures are ferroelectric-like elemental polar metals with topological nontrivial edge states. For Ge and Sn, trivial elemental polar metals are predicted. Our work reveals the possibility of design two-dimensional elemental topological ferroelectrics and polar metals by stacking-engineering.<br />Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2309.14609
- Document Type :
- Working Paper