Fig. 8: Microscopic mechanisms of sliding ferroelectricity. | npj 2D Materials and Applications

Fig. 8: Microscopic mechanisms of sliding ferroelectricity.

From: Emerging frontiers in two-dimensional sliding ferroelectrics

Fig. 8

a Mechanism of ferroelectric polarization generation in bilayer 3R-phase MoS2. b Thermodynamic energy barriers for different stacking configurations in bilayer 3R-MoS2, among those AB and BA are two most stable stackings. Reproduced with permission54. Copyright 2024, Springer Nature. c Schematic of layer-by-layer sliding mechanism for ferroelectric polarization in multilayer 3R-MoS2. Reproduced with permission73. Copyright 2022, Springer Nature.

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