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Twist piezoelectricity: giant electromechanical coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer LiNbO3

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  • Hulin Yao

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Pengcheng Zheng

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Shibin Zhang

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Chuanjie Hu

    (Xiamen University)

  • Xiaoli Fang

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Liping Zhang

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Dan Ling

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Huanyang Chen

    (Xiamen University
    Xiamen University Malaysia)

  • Xin Ou

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

Twisted a pair of stacked two-dimensional materials exhibit many exotic electronic and photonic properties, leading to the emergence of flat-band superconductivity, moiré engineering and topological polaritons. These remarkable discoveries make twistronics the focus point of tremendous interest, but mostly limited to the concept of electrons, phonons or photons. Here, we present twist piezoelectricity as a fascinating paradigm to modulate polarization and electromechanical coupling by twisting precisely the stacked lithium niobate slabs due to the interlayer coupling effect. Particularly, the inversed and twisted bilayer lithium niobate is constructed to overcome the intrinsic mutual limitation of single crystals and giant effective electromechanical coupling coefficient $${k}_{t}^{2}$$ k t 2 is unveiled at magic angle of $$111^\circ$$ 11 1 ∘ , reaching 85.5%. Theoretical analysis based on mutual energy integrals shows well agreements with numerical and experimental results. Our work opens new venues to flexibly control multi-physics with magic angle, stimulating progress in wideband acoustic-electric, and acoustic-optic components, which has great potential in wireless communication, timing, sensing, and hybrid integrated photonics.

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  • Hulin Yao & Pengcheng Zheng & Shibin Zhang & Chuanjie Hu & Xiaoli Fang & Liping Zhang & Dan Ling & Huanyang Chen & Xin Ou, 2024. "Twist piezoelectricity: giant electromechanical coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer LiNbO3," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-8, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-49321-x
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49321-x
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