International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Volume. 7, Issue 4, 45505(2025)

Tunable anisotropy in wide-bandgap 2D crystal CaNb2O6 utilizing nanomechanical resonators

Liang Yachun, Wang Luming, Wu Song, Wu Jiaqi, Zhu Jiankai, Qin Jiaze, Fan Xiulian, Zhang Zejuan, Xu Bo, Jiao Chenyin, Pei Shenghai, Zhou Yu, Xia Juan, and Wang Zenghui

As an ultrathin wide-bandgap (WBG) material, CaNb2O6 exhibits excellent optical and electrical properties. Particularly, its highly asymmetric crystal structure provides new opportunities for designing novel nanodevices with directional functionality. However, due to the significant challenges in applying conventional techniques to nanoscale samples, the in-plane anisotropy of CaNb2O6 has still remained unexplored. Here, we leverage the resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) platform to successfully quantify both the mechanical and thermal anisotropies in such an ultrathin WBG crystal. Specifically, by measuring the dynamic response in both spectral and spatial domains, we determine the anisotropic Young’s modulus of CaNb2O6 as EY (a) = 70.42 GPa and EY(b) = 116.2 GPa. By further expanding this technique to cryogenic temperatures, we unveil the anisotropy in thermal expansion coefficients as α(a) = 13.4 ppm·K−1, α(b) = 2.9 ppm·K−1. Interestingly, through thermal strain engineering, we successfully modulate the mode sequence and achieve a crossing of (1 × 2)-(2 × 1) modes with perfect degeneracy. Our study provides guidelines for future CaNb2O6 nanodevices with additional degrees of freedom and new device functions.

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Liang Yachun, Wang Luming, Wu Song, Wu Jiaqi, Zhu Jiankai, Qin Jiaze, Fan Xiulian, Zhang Zejuan, Xu Bo, Jiao Chenyin, Pei Shenghai, Zhou Yu, Xia Juan, Wang Zenghui. Tunable anisotropy in wide-bandgap 2D crystal CaNb2O6 utilizing nanomechanical resonators[J]. International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2025, 7(4): 45505

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Received: Aug. 19, 2024

Accepted: Sep. 9, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 9, 2025

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DOI:10.1088/2631-7990/adba1d

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