# Imaging Electric Polarization Switching in Multilayer Graphene

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2026-07-13T05:53:42.348183Z

## Updated at

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## Published at

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## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.75781

## Date published

2026-05-22

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2026-6

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## Title

- title: Imaging Electric Polarization Switching in Multilayer Graphene
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Fundamentally distinct from the conventional ferroelectrics, the most
    discriminative hallmark of the emerging 2D sliding ferroelectricity is the polarization
    switching via the domain wall (DW) sliding. Meanwhile, multilayer graphene has
    recently attracted immense research attention owing to engineerable strong electron
    correlation and non-trivial band topology. Here, domain wall sliding-induced electric
    polarization switching is directly observed for the first time in multilayer graphene.
    We identify adjacent polar domains of opposite electric polarizations in tetralayer
    graphene, the thinnest natural graphene polytype with broken inversion and mirror
    symmetries, by a gate-tunable nanoscale optical imaging technique. Remarkably,
    we directly observe and realize the DW sliding-induced polarization switching
    between these polar domains upon application of global and local electric fields
    and mechanical forces. Our combined experiment and theory find a single DW sliding
    at the middlemost interface is responsible for the polarization switching. Our
    work opens new opportunities in studying sliding ferroelectricity in multilayer
    graphene, and demonstrates a novel optical readout method for sensitively and
    directly detecting electric polarization in 2D materials.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: und

## Creator

- name: Zhou Zhou
  role: author
- name: Xiyao Peng
  role: author
- name: Jianfeng Bi
  role: author
- name: Jing He
  role: author
- name: Fei Xue
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9039-7088
- name: Jie Jiang
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-0625
- name: Huizhen Wu
  role: author
- name: Zhiwen Shi
  role: author
- name: Haoliang Qian
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-9479
- name: Toshikaze Kariyado
  role: author
- name: Sihan Zhao
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-734X

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organization: Wiley

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## Keyword

- subject: graphene
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- subject: ferroelectricity
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- subject: optical imaging
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## Rights

- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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## Journal

- title: Advanced Science
  issn: '21983844'
  volume: '13'
  issue: '36'
  article_number: e75781

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## Funding

- identifier: '92580112'
  funder_name: National Natural Science Foundation of China
- identifier: '12174335'
  funder_name: National Natural Science Foundation of China
- identifier: '12374292'
  funder_name: National Natural Science Foundation of China
- identifier: '62175217'
  funder_name: National Natural Science Foundation of China
- identifier: JP24K06968
  funder_name: 日本学術振興会
  description: 原子層物質の積層構造による新奇量子物性・新規機能の理論開発

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