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Two-dimensional sliding ferroelectrics, with their unique stacking degrees of freedom, offer a different approach to manipulate polarization by interlayer sliding. Bending sliding ferroelectrics inevitably leads to interlayer sliding motion, thus altering stacking orders and polarization properties. Here, by using machine-learning force field, we investigate the effects of bending deformation on geometries, stackings, energies, and polarizations in sliding ferroelectric bilayer h-BN and 3R-MoS2. We predict that bent ferroelectric bilayer forms irreversible kinks instead of arc when the bending angle exceeds a critical value. We demonstrate that the kinks originate from the competition between bending energy and interlayer van der Waals energy. The kink contains a ferroelectric domain wall that reverses the polarization, effectively inducing a flexoelectric effect. We term this phenomenon "sliding flexoelectricity" to distinguish it from conventional strain-gradient-induced flexoelectricity.

Author

He, Ri; Wang, Hua; Deng, Fenglin; Gao, Yuxiang; Zhang, Binwen; Shi, Yubai; Li, Run-Wei; Zhong, Zhicheng

Published

2024

Language

EN