<p>Converse flexoelectric actuators offer significant potential for diverse applications due to their rapid response, resilience in extreme environments, and broad material compatibility. However, their development has been limited, primarily because flexoelectric effects are negligible in bulk materials. At the nanoscale, the converse flexoelectric effect becomes much more promising, as the electric field gradient scales quadratically with decreasing material thickness. Here, we report a converse flexoelectric actuator based on two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide. Under alternating current excitation near 20 kHz, the actuator exhibits resonant displacements up to ~45 nm, approximately two orders of magnitude larger than the thickness of the molybdenum disulfide active layer. This performance exceeds that of existing flexoelectric actuators by more than an order of magnitude when normalized by active layer thickness. Moreover, the actuator maintains strong flexoelectric responses under extreme conditions, including vacuum, cryogenic temperatures, and repeated cycling, highlighting the robustness and broad applicability of two-dimensional material-based converse flexoelectric systems.</p>

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Converse flexoelectric two-dimensional MoS2 actuator

  • Yeageun Lee,
  • Hyung Jong Bae,
  • Md Farhadul Haque,
  • Keon-Hee Lim,
  • Jin Myung Kim,
  • Weilin Guan,
  • SungWoo Nam

摘要

Converse flexoelectric actuators offer significant potential for diverse applications due to their rapid response, resilience in extreme environments, and broad material compatibility. However, their development has been limited, primarily because flexoelectric effects are negligible in bulk materials. At the nanoscale, the converse flexoelectric effect becomes much more promising, as the electric field gradient scales quadratically with decreasing material thickness. Here, we report a converse flexoelectric actuator based on two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide. Under alternating current excitation near 20 kHz, the actuator exhibits resonant displacements up to ~45 nm, approximately two orders of magnitude larger than the thickness of the molybdenum disulfide active layer. This performance exceeds that of existing flexoelectric actuators by more than an order of magnitude when normalized by active layer thickness. Moreover, the actuator maintains strong flexoelectric responses under extreme conditions, including vacuum, cryogenic temperatures, and repeated cycling, highlighting the robustness and broad applicability of two-dimensional material-based converse flexoelectric systems.