Moiré-Engineered Ferroelectric Transistors for Nearly Trap-Free, Low-Power, and Nonvolatile 2D Electronics
Long-range moiré patterns in twisted WSe<sub>2</sub> enable a built-in, moiré-length-scale ferroelectric polarization that can be directly harnessed in electronic devices. Such a built-in ferroic landscape offers compelling means to enable ultralow-voltage and non-volatile electronic functionality in two-dimensional (2D) materials; however, achieving stable polarization control without charge trapping has remained a persistent challenge. Here, we demonstrate a moiré-engineered ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) utilizing twisted WSe<sub>2</sub> bilayers that leverage atomically clean van der Waals interfaces to achieve efficient polarization-channel coupling and trap-suppressed, ultralow-voltage operation (subthreshold swing of 64 mV dec<sup>-1</sup>). The device exhibits a stable non-volatile memory window of 0.10 V and high mobility, exceeding the performance of previously reported 2D FeFET and matching that of advanced silicon-based devices. In addition, capacitance-voltage spectroscopy, corroborated by self-consistent Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire modeling, indicates ultrafast ferroelectric switching (∼0.5 μs). These results establish moiré-engineered ferroelectricity as a practical and scalable route toward ultraclean, low-power, and non-volatile 2D electronics, bridging atomistic lattice engineering with functional device architectures for next-generation memory and logic technologies.
Authors
- Rahul Debnath (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5798-6611)
- Shaili Sett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6739-8090)
- Arup Singha
- Kenji Watanabe
- Arindam Ghosh
- Takashi Taniguchi
Institutions
- National Institute for Materials Science (JP)
- Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County (US)
- Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UA)
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée (FR)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACS Nano
- Published
- 2026-03-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c22109
- Primary Topic
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00