Straintronics, being a platform for creating new-generation information processing devices and a physical basis for the development of flexible electronics using two-dimensional (2D) inorganic materials, is currently a rapidly developing field of nanoelectronics. An attractive feature of the new family of 2D crystals is their capacity for deformation and stretching. The use of deformations can lead to remarkable changes in the electronic properties of 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures based on them and to nonconventional technological and engineering solutions. Deformation engineering as an avenue to explore the potential to adjust the physical properties of materials by controlling elastic deformation fields is ideal for implementation precisely in atomically thin materials and structures.

Keywords: straintronics, graphene, 2D materials, heterostructures, mechanical properties, band gap, electrical properties, photoluminescence, light scattering, light absorption, adjustment of optical properties, local deformations, corrugated monolayers, atomic adsorption, potential applications PACS: 68.60.Bs, 68.65.Pq, 72.80.Vp, 73.40.−c, 77.65.Ly (all) DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.2021.05.038984 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2022/6/b/ 001098556400001 2-s2.0-85182907895 2022PhyU...65..567A Citation: Antonova I V "Straintronics of 2D inorganic materials for electronic and optical applications" Phys. Usp. 65 567–596 (2022) BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS)MedlineRefWorks Received: 24th, November 2020, revised: 16th, April 2021, accepted: 3rd, May 2021 Оригинал: Антонова И В «Стрейнтроника двумерных неорганических материалов для электронных и оптических приложений» УФН 192 609–641 (2022); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2021.05.038984