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Keynote Speaker

Prof. Moshe Ben Shalom

School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Fabricating, Probing, and Sliding vdW Polytypes with an AFM Tip

 

The field of "Slidtronics" opens exciting opportunities to probe and utilize the physics of atoms and electrons in vdW structures. Today, we can switch one crystalline stacking configuration, "Polytype" to another using only electric fields, providing fascinating multi-ferroic responses at <fJ switching energies and <ns switching times. The talk will focus on crucial experimental steps enabled by KPFM measurements and AFM lithography, spanning from our 2020 paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05182 - introducing the superlubric "SlideTronics" dislocation concept) to a novel sliding ferroelectric resonant tunnel junction (SFeRT) array (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00817).