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Received — 9 August 2026 ⏭ Nature

Encapsulation epitaxy of air-stable 2D superconductors for quantum circuits

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By: Xudong Zheng · Sameia Zaman · Kenan Zhang · Connor A. Occhialini · Haowei Xu · Zhien Wang · Xinyan Li · Fangyuan Liu · Luiz Gustavo Pimenta Martins · Sejoon Lim · Tianyi Zhang · Tilo H. Yang · Jiangtao Wang · Yunyue Zhu · Zachariah Hennighausen · Sein Park · Steven Vitale · Kevin Tibbetts · Stephen Margiotta · Phillip Kim · Cong Su · Yimo Han · Ju Li · Riccardo Comin · William D. Oliver · Joel Î-j. Wang · Jing Kong
5 August 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10865-1

An ‘encapsulation epitaxy’ mechanism is used to grow air-stable, two-dimensional superconducting films at the interface of a 2D–3D hybrid substrate, holding promise for use in fabrication of superconducting quantum circuitry.
Received — 2 August 2026 ⏭ Nature

Perpendicular switching of polarization in layered ferroelectrics

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By: Pushpendra Gupta · Sergio Puebla · Fernando Gómez-Ortiz · Xinyan Li · Sajid Husain · Ting-Ran Liu · Peter Meisenheimer · Vishantak Srikrishna · Dmitri Nikonov · Matthew Chen · Yogesh Kumar · Ashish Omar · Koushik Das · Barat Achinuq · Sujoy Roy · Yu-Tsun Shao · Yimo Han · Sayeef Salahuddin · Amrita Mathuriya · Sasikanth Manipatruni · Philippe Ghosez · Javier Junquera · Ramamoorthy Ramesh
29 July 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10839-3

Perpendicular switching of the polarization state in the layered ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 is demonstrated by means of trilinear coupling, allowing manipulation of the in-plane polarization component with an out-of-plane electric field.
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