Unusual topological polar texture in moiré ferroelectrics
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| author | Li, Yuhao Wei, Yuanhao Guo, Ruiping Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hanhao Taniguchi, Takashi Watanabe, Kenji Shi, Yan Shi, Yi Wang, Chong Fei, Zaiyao |
| author_facet | Li, Yuhao Wei, Yuanhao Guo, Ruiping Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hanhao Taniguchi, Takashi Watanabe, Kenji Shi, Yan Shi, Yi Wang, Chong Fei, Zaiyao |
| contents | Topological polar textures in ferroelectrics have attracted significant interest for their potential for energy-efficient and high-density data storage and processing. Among these, polar merons and antimerons are predicted in strained and twisted bilayers of inversion symmetry broken systems. However, experimental observation of these polar textures within twisted two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) materials remains challenging. Here, we utilize vector piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) to reconstruct the polarization fields in R-type marginally twisted hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We observe alternating out-of-plane (OOP) polarizations at domain regions and in-plane (IP) vortex-like polarization patterns along domain walls (DWs), indicative of a network of polar merons and antimerons. Notably, the OOP polarization exhibits three polarity reversals across a DW. Similar polar textures are identified in marginally twisted MoSe2 and WSe2 homobilayers. Our theoretical simulations attribute these unusual polarization reversals near the DWs to the competition between moiré ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity. These results provide experimental evidence of complex polar textures in moiré ferroelectrics, offering new insights into the electronic band topology in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). |
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| spellingShingle | Unusual topological polar texture in moiré ferroelectrics Li, Yuhao Wei, Yuanhao Guo, Ruiping Wang, Yifei Zhang, Hanhao Taniguchi, Takashi Watanabe, Kenji Shi, Yan Shi, Yi Wang, Chong Fei, Zaiyao Materials Science Topological polar textures in ferroelectrics have attracted significant interest for their potential for energy-efficient and high-density data storage and processing. Among these, polar merons and antimerons are predicted in strained and twisted bilayers of inversion symmetry broken systems. However, experimental observation of these polar textures within twisted two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) materials remains challenging. Here, we utilize vector piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) to reconstruct the polarization fields in R-type marginally twisted hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We observe alternating out-of-plane (OOP) polarizations at domain regions and in-plane (IP) vortex-like polarization patterns along domain walls (DWs), indicative of a network of polar merons and antimerons. Notably, the OOP polarization exhibits three polarity reversals across a DW. Similar polar textures are identified in marginally twisted MoSe2 and WSe2 homobilayers. Our theoretical simulations attribute these unusual polarization reversals near the DWs to the competition between moiré ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity. These results provide experimental evidence of complex polar textures in moiré ferroelectrics, offering new insights into the electronic band topology in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). |
| title | Unusual topological polar texture in moiré ferroelectrics |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18763 |