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Giant Tunneling Electroresistance Reported in Sliding Ferroelectrics
Key Takeaways
- A paper titled "Giant tunneling electroresistance in sliding ferroelectrics" appears in Science, Volume 393, Issue 6816, pages 1139–1144, September 2026.
- The title combines two research threads: polarization arising from layer stacking in van der Waals bilayers, and resistance switching in ferroelectric tunnel junctions.
- Tunneling electroresistance is the resistance contrast between two polarization states in an ultrathin ferroelectric barrier.
- The reported effect is described as "giant," which matters because read margin and reliability drive device viability.
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