Nonvolatile Electrical Programming of Valley Pseudospins in a Ferroelectric Van Der Waals Heterostructure
ABSTRACT Valley pseudospin, the third quantum degree of freedom for electrons in two‐dimensional crystals after charge and spin, exhibits two distinguishable states (K and −K) and serves as a versatile platform for information encoding, manipulation, and low‐power quantum technologies. However, most existing approaches rely on continuous external fields to transiently induce valley polarization, without stable K/−K occupation imbalance, fundamentally preventing nonvolatile valley‐based memory. Here, we demonstrate nonvolatile and electrically programmable control of valley pseudospins in a van der Waals heterostructure composed of monolayer MoSe 2 and ferroelectric CuInP 2 S 6 (CIPS). By integrating a gold micropillar electrode array with an electromechanical modulation scheme, localized strain gradients are introduced into the MoSe 2 /CIPS heterostructure, giving rise to flexoelectric fields that regulate Cu + redistribution and enable robust, energy‐efficient control of excitonic properties. Magneto‐optical spectroscopy reveals that ferroelectric polarization‐induced interfacial fields enable reversible switching between spin‐allowed bright and spin‐forbidden dark trions, accompanied by a reversible Landé g ‐factor tuning from −4.7 to −7.8. Under an external magnetic field, electrically driven valley polarization reaches 35.7%, exhibiting high contrast and long‐term retention. Furthermore, ASCII‐encoded valley polarization states demonstrate reliable nonvolatile information storage. This work establishes a versatile ferroelectric platform for reconfigurable valleytronic memory and programmable quantum photonics, paving the way toward scalable and energy‐efficient quantum information technologies.
Authors
- Shufen Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3390-4199)
- Jianzhong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8232-7298)
- Yi Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1058-0382)
- Jun He
- Xian Zhang
- Jian‐Tao Wang
- Shikun Hou
- Zongwen Liu
- Shaofei Li
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Central South University (CN)
- City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute (CN)
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (CN)
- FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ)
- Shenzhen Institute of Building Research (China) (CN)
- National Laboratory for Superconductivity (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Published
- 2026-02-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202528029
- Primary Topic
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00