Piezoelectric properties in two-dimensional materials: Simulations and experiments

R Hinchet, U Khan, C Falconi, SW Kim - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
The piezoelectric effect, discovered in 1880 by Jacques and Pierre Curie, effectively allows
to transduce signals from the mechanical domain to the electrical domain and vice versa …

Piezoelectricity of 2D nanomaterials: characterization, properties, and applications

J Zhang, SA Meguid - Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of piezoelectricity in 2D nanomaterials represents a milestone towards
embedding low-dimensional materials into future technologies. This article reviews recent …

Prediction of strong piezoelectricity in 3R-MoS2 multilayer structures

D Tan, M Willatzen, ZL Wang - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
We present the first calculation of piezoelectric constants of 3R-MoS 2 which is one of three
known polytypes of MoS 2. We demonstrate that the 3R-MoS 2 structure with 5 layers has …

Large piezoelectric response in ferroelectric/multiferroelectric metal oxyhalide MOX 2 (M= Ti, V and X= F, Cl and Br) monolayers

M Noor-A-Alam, M Nolan - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Flexible two-dimensional (2D) piezoelectric materials are promising for applications in
wearable electromechanical nano-devices such as sensors, energy harvesters, and …

Exploring tensile piezoelectricity and bending flexoelectricity of diamane monolayers by machine learning

B Javvaji, B Mortazavi, X Zhuang, T Rabczuk - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
The investigation of electromechanical properties for the newly added two-dimensional
materials is challenging and enthralling. In this work, we consider studying the piezoelectric …

Enhanced out-of-plane electromechanical response of Janus ZrSeO

TH Pham, H Ullah, A Shafique, HJ Kim… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional piezoelectric materials have attracted great attention as they could play a
vital role in nano-electromagnetic systems. Herein, we investigate the compelling …

The structural, electronic, optical and thermodynamical properties of hydrofluorinated graphene: First-principle calculations

R Santosh, V Kumar - Solid State Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
First principle calculations have been performed to study the structural, electronic, optical
and thermodynamical properties of hydrofluorinated graphene. The band structure and …

Stability, spontaneous and induced polarization in monolayer MoC, WC, WS, and WSe

A Samad, HJ Kim, YH Shin - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferroelectricity in the ultra-low thin films of the ferroelectric materials is a rare phenomenon
due to the depolarization electric field established by the uncompensated surface charge …

Design of van der Waals Two-Dimensional Heterostructures from Facially Polarized Janus All-Cis 1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexafluorocyclohexane (C6H6F6)

SM Pratik, A Nijamudheen, A Datta - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The recently synthesized all-cis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-hexafluorocyclohexane (1) has a large dipole
moment (6.2 D) and uniaxial facial polarization. Based on density functional theory (DFT) …

Switchable polarization in an unzipped graphene oxide monolayer

M Noor-A-Alam, YH Shin - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferroelectricity in low-dimensional oxide materials is generally suppressed at the scale of a
few nanometers, and has attracted considerable attention from both fundamental and …