Domaines
Condensed matter
Type of internship
Expérimental Description
To investigate lower imprint technology without compromising performance in energy storage or communication devices, we propose to study the relatively confidential family of oxocarbic acids with remarkable (anti)ferroelectric
properties: large ferroelectricity and fast transition. Nevertheless, their use in nanotechnologies is hampered by the lack of
understanding of the (anti)ferroelectric switching mechanism and the difficulties in integrating them in
nanodevices.
To circumvent these difficulties, we offer to investigate interfacial effects in oxocarbic –
graphene systems. Thanks to its very high sensibility to its dielectric environment, graphene is the
perfect platform to transduce the (anti)ferroelectric state of the oxocarbic layer into a change of
conductance for an easier integration into today’s technology [2]. The change of electrical polarization
in a croconic acid layer (ferroelectric) or in a squaric acid layer (antiferroelectric) is expected to tune the
conduction path of graphene as a function of crystallographic and orientational degrees of freedom.
This master 2 project aims thus at investigating this electric proximity effect in between two
class of materials of high future perspectives (molecules and graphene). The aim is to unravel the
dielectric anisotropies in the (anti)ferroelectric layer and the specificities of the ferroelectric switching
transition.
Contact
Martin Bowen