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Anomalous refractive index modulation and giant birefringence in 2D ferrielectric CuInP$_2$S$_6$

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Pith's one-line read The paper claims that thinning CuInP2S6 from bulk to about 22 nm changes its refractive index by up to 23.2% and yields a blue-ultraviolet birefringence of about 1.24, the largest of any known material in that range.

desk verdict Thickness-dependent ellipsometry on CuInP2S6 shows a promising but unproven giant birefringence and anomalous index change; the measurement needs error bars and independent thickness checks before the record claims can be trusted. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.21279 v2 pith:ISDKCGI3 submitted 2025-06-26 cond-mat.mtrl-sci physics.app-phphysics.optics

Houssam El Mrabet Haje , Roald J. H. van der Kolk , Trent M. Kyrk , Mazhar N. Ali This is my paper · ORCID
classification cond-mat.mtrl-sciphysics.app-phphysics.optics
keywords CuInP2S6ferrielectric2Dferroelectricrefractiveindexbirefringencespectroscopicellipsometrythicknessdependenceelectro-optics
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This paper reports that the refractive index of the layered ferrielectric crystal CuInP2S6 changes by as much as 23.2% as the crystal is thinned from bulk to about 22 nm at room temperature, an effect far larger than the usual finite-size corrections seen in ordinary dielectrics. It also reports a giant intrinsic birefringence, $\Delta n = |n_{\mathrm{OOP}} - n_{\mathrm{IP}}| \approx 1.24$ at 339.5 nm for a 22 nm flake, which the authors state is the largest of any known material in the blue-ultraviolet regime. The paper attributes the thickness-driven optical changes to changes in the Cu(I) polarization component, coupled to the mobility and site occupancy of Cu(I) ions. If correct, flake thickness becomes a practical tuning parameter for optical response in a broad spectral range, beyond the ultra-thin limit.

What carries the argument

The central object is the layered van der Waals ferrielectric CuInP2S6, in which Cu(I) cations occupy multiple sites and contribute both the ferroelectric polarization and ionic conductivity. The load-bearing observable is the anisotropic pair of optical constants $n_{\mathrm{IP}}$ and $n_{\mathrm{OOP}}$ (with the corresponding extinction coefficients), extracted from variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry at each thickness. The headline quantities are the birefringence $\Delta n = n_{\mathrm{OOP}} - n_{\mathrm{IP}}$ and the relative thickness-induced change $\delta n = (n_{\mathrm{max}} - n_{\mathrm{min}})/n_{\mathrm{max}}$. The proposed mechanism coupling thickness to optics is a change in the Cu(I) polarization contribution, inferred from Raman mode shifts and broadening, especially the Cu$^+$ mode near 311 cm$^{-1}$, accompanying the thickness-driven structural transition from monoclinic Cc to trigonal P31c.

What would settle it

Measure the same CuInP2S6 flakes with atomic force microscopy after each etch, then refit the ellipsometry data with thickness fixed to the AFM value; if the 23.2% change in refractive index collapses when thickness is fixed, the anomaly is a fitting artifact rather than a material property. Alternatively, compare etched flakes with unetched exfoliated flakes of matched thickness: if the unetched flakes do not reproduce the anomalous trend, the argon-beam process is responsible.

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Core claim

The authors find that CuInP2S6, a layered van der Waals ferrielectric, shows an anomalous thickness-dependent optical response in the range $t \in [22, 170)$ nm at room temperature, with the out-of-plane refractive index changing by up to $\delta n \sim 23.2\%$ at $\lambda = 280.0$ nm. They further find that the intrinsic birefringence $|n_{\mathrm{OOP}} - n_{\mathrm{IP}}|$ is large over the entire measured range and reaches about 1.24 at $t \sim 22$ nm and $\lambda = 339.5$ nm, which they state is the largest of any known material in the blue-ultraviolet regime. The paper connects these optical changes to the Cu(I) ferrielectric polarization contribution, whose ionic mobility and site occupancy change with thickness, and it supports this connection with Raman measurements showing thickness-driven shifts in Cu$^+$, P-P, S-P-P, and S-P-S modes. The authors propose that the effect is generalizable to other ferroelectrics such as LiNbO3 and Bi2FeCrO6, though weaker than in CuInP2S6.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the thickness-dependent refractive indices extracted from spectroscopic ellipsometry are intrinsic properties of CuInP2S6, not artifacts of the fitting model's trade-off between thickness and index or of argon-beam etching altering the surface.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Thickness becomes a control knob for the optical constants of CuInP2S6 across the 22-170 nm range, not only in the few-nanometre limit.
  • A 22 nm CuInP2S6 flake offers an intrinsic blue-UV birefringence of about 1.24, larger than quartz, calcite, rutile, hBN, and transition-metal dichalcogenides, without metasurface structuring.
  • Because the optical changes track the Cu(I) polarization and ionic subsystem, electrical or ionic control of Cu(I) occupancy is a plausible route to electro-optic modulation in CuInP2S6.
  • The same thickness-dependent refractive-index behaviour appears, more weakly, in LiNbO3 and Bi2FeCrO6, suggesting a general ferroelectric phenomenon rather than a CuInP2S6-specific accident.
  • The largest thickness-induced index change occurs near 280 nm, a wavelength at which CuInP2S6 already functions as a UV photodetector, pointing to combined detection and polarization-control functionality.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the effect is intrinsic, etching a single flake into terraces of different thickness would create a lateral refractive-index gradient, enabling graded-index optics or waveguides without changing material composition.
  • A direct testable extension is to drive Cu(I) ions with an in-plane electric field at fixed thickness and look for a reversible shift in $n_{\mathrm{OOP}}$; the paper cites the sister compound CuCrP2S6 showing such tuning but does not demonstrate it for CuInP2S6.
  • The wavelength crossing points in $n(t)$ and $\kappa(t)$ imply that CuInP2S6 could be designed to be index-matched or birefringence-sign-switching at chosen wavelengths, an opportunity the paper does not explore.
  • A natural next check is to measure flake thickness independently, for example by atomic force microscopy, and refit the ellipsometry data with that thickness fixed; this would test how much of the reported thickness dependence is model-driven.
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Summary. This manuscript reports variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry (VASE) measurements on mechanically exfoliated CuInP2S6 flakes that are progressively thinned by argon-beam etching. The authors extract in-plane and out-of-plane optical constants from ~615 nm down to ~14 nm and report two central claims: (i) an 'anomalous' thickness-dependent refractive-index change, largest in the out-of-plane direction with δn ~23.2% at λ = 280 nm over t ∈ [22, 170) nm, and (ii) a giant birefringence |n_OOP − n_IP| ~1.24 at t ~22 nm and λ = 339.5 nm, claimed to be the largest intrinsic birefringence in the blue-ultraviolet regime of any known material. The thickness dependence is attributed to changes in the Cu(I) ferroelectric polarization and ionic mobility. Control VASE measurements on LiNbO3 and SiO2 and thickness-dependent Raman spectroscopy are included to support the interpretation.

Significance. If the extracted optical constants are intrinsic material properties, the results are significant: they introduce thickness as a new tuning parameter for the refractive index of a 2D ferroelectric and report a record birefringence in the blue-ultraviolet range. The experimental effort is substantial and includes multi-angle ellipsometry, a multi-sample fitting approach, control measurements on LiNbO3 and SiO2, and careful low-power Raman measurements. However, the central quantitative claims rest entirely on a heavily parameterized ellipsometric model without independent thickness verification or uncertainty analysis, and the sequential argon-beam etching introduces a plausible route to surface modification that the Raman check may not detect. The significance is therefore conditional on resolving these extraction and surface-integrity concerns.

major comments (3)
  1. [Methods – Modelling; Table S1] The central quantitative claims (Table S1: δn = 23.18% for OOP at λ = 280 nm in the 22–170 nm regime; Fig. 5b: |Δn| ≈ 1.24 at t ≈ 22 nm) are extracted from a spectroscopic-ellipsometry model with many free parameters: Cody-Lorentz and Gaussian oscillator parameters for both axes, thickness at every etch step, EMA roughness fraction, and thickness non-uniformity. No confidence intervals, parameter-correlation matrices, or fit-quality landscapes are reported. For a ~22 nm anisotropic film on SiO2/Si, thickness and refractive index are strongly correlated in Fresnel fitting, so the reported thickness dependence—and the birefringence derived from the same fit—could be partly or wholly a numerical artifact of the model. Please provide (i) independent thickness measurements (e.g., AFM step heights) at least at the endpoints and ideally at each etch step, (ii) confidence intervals and correlation analysis for the extracted n and t, and (iii) a quantitative comparison (MSE, AIC/BIC) against a model with thickness-independent optical constants.
  2. [Argon beam etching; Fig. 1c] The conclusion that argon-beam etching does not cause significant damage to CIPS's crystal structure is based on the absence of new Raman peaks in the 100–400 cm−1 range. Raman with 488 nm excitation probes the bulk phonon spectrum and is not surface-sensitive; a thin altered layer (Cu depletion, cation disorder, or an amorphous/partially oxidized surface layer) could easily escape detection while having a large effect on the ellipsometric spectra, especially for the thinnest flakes where the surface-to-volume ratio is highest. This is a direct alternative explanation for the thickness-dependent optical constants. Please add surface-sensitive characterization (XPS or AES depth profiling, cross-sectional TEM, or at least a surface-layer term in the optical model) or repeat the measurement on several flakes with different initial thicknesses to verify that the trend is independent of etch history.
  3. [Methods – Modelling (final paragraph)] The statement that alternative models 'did not yield better fitting results. Therefore, it implies that, in fact, CIPS' optical properties actually change with thickness' overreaches: failure of a few alternative models to improve the fit does not establish that the thickness dependence is intrinsic, particularly when thickness itself is a fitted parameter. To make this point load-bearing, the fit statistics for the competing models (including number of parameters and information criteria) should be reported, and a model with thickness-independent optical constants but an independently measured thickness should be shown to be inconsistent with the data.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Abstract; Table S1] The symbol δn is defined in Table S1 as a relative change, (nmax − nmin)/nmax × 100, so the abstract's 'δn ∼ 23.2%' should be described as a relative change in refractive index rather than an absolute change, to avoid confusion with the birefringence Δn used elsewhere.
  2. [Methods – Modelling] Typo: 'analysied' should be 'analysed'.
  3. [Methods – Argon beam etching] Typos: 'sheering angle' should be 'shearing angle'; 'accelaration beam voltage' should be 'acceleration beam voltage'; and 'thickness ranget' should be 'thickness range t'.
  4. [Reference [14]] The page range '1309–11310' appears to be a typo, likely '1309–1310'.
  5. [Data and materials availability] The statement that data are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request is acceptable, but for record claims it would be helpful to deposit the raw ellipsometric spectra and fitting code in a public repository.
  6. [Fig. 1c] The Raman spectra are normalized to the ~375 cm−1 peak; please state whether normalization is applied before or after averaging and whether spectra are offset for display, as the plotted intensities could be misread.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 0.0 of 10

No significant circularity: the reported optical constants and thickness trends are direct ellipsometric extractions with an interpretive mechanism, not a derivation forced by definitions or self-citations.

full rationale

The paper's central claims (δn ~ 23.2% and |Δn| ~ 1.24) are not derived from a theory; they are extractions from spectroscopic ellipsometry and Raman measurements. The ellipsometric model simultaneously fits thickness and optical constants from the measured Ψ and Δ spectra, and the thickness dependence is presented as a comparison of fitted values at successive argon-beam etch steps. Although thickness and refractive index can be correlated in thin-film Fresnel models, the paper does not define n in terms of t or vice versa, and no equation in the manuscript reduces the reported δn or Δn to its own inputs. The discussion of polarization and ionic mobility is explicitly interpretive ('may be explained', 'may be influenced'), and the Raman data are independent measurements used as supporting evidence rather than inputs that force the optical constants. The control experiments on LiNbO3 and SiO2 use the same fitting pipeline, so any systematic model bias would be a measurement-validity concern, not a circularity. No load-bearing self-citations or imported uniqueness theorems appear; references to prior work on CIPS's critical thickness and polarization are external. Therefore, no circular step can be identified, and the appropriate score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the ellipsometric extraction of optical constants, which requires a multi-parameter model (oscillators, B-spline, EMA, roughness, thickness). The paper provides no error bars and does not independently verify thickness. The mechanistic interpretation relies on domain assumptions about the ferroelectric transition and ion mobility effects, supported by citation but not directly measured here.

free parameters (3)
  • Ellipsometry oscillator parameters (Cody-Lorentz and Gaussian) = not provided
    The in-plane and out-of-plane refractive indices and extinction coefficients are extracted by fitting these oscillators; the central thickness-dependent trends depend on the fitted values.
  • Film thickness t at each etch step = 14-615 nm
    Thickness is fitted simultaneously with optical constants in VASE; no independent AFM or SEM thickness measurement is reported.
  • Roughness layer and EMA mixing parameters = not provided
    Used to fit the ellipsometric data, including a roughness layer and Bruggeman effective medium approximation; could absorb thickness-dependent artifacts.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption CIPS is effectively uniaxial with negligible in-plane anisotropy (nx - ny = 0.0149)
    In Methods, the authors state that including trirefringence did not improve the model, so in-plane anisotropy is neglected in the optical constant extraction.
  • domain assumption The thickness-induced structural transition at t_c ~90 nm reported in Ref [45] applies to this sample
    The sudden optical change at t ~90 nm is attributed to this transition, yet the Raman shifts suggest the transition occurs at 60-71 nm or 71-83 nm, creating some uncertainty.
  • domain assumption Argon beam etching does not alter the intrinsic optical constants
    The authors argue via Raman spectroscopy that etching causes no significant damage, but they do not verify that etching leaves optical constants unchanged on a bulk reference.

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Pith. "Pith review of Anomalous refractive index modulation and giant birefringence in 2D ferrielectric CuInP$_2$S$_6$." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/ISDKCGI3

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abstract

2D ferroelectric (FE) materials have opened new opportunities in non-volatile memories, computation and non-linear optics due to their robust polarization in the ultra-thin limit and inherent flexibility in device integration. Recently, interest has grown in the use of 2D FEs in electro-optics, demanding the exploration of their electronic and optical properties. In this work, we report the discovery of an unprecedented anomalous thickness-dependent change in refractive index, as large as $\delta n$ $\sim$ 23.2$\%$, in the 2D ferrielectric CuInP$_2$S$_6$, far above the ultra-thin limit, and at room temperature. Furthermore, CuInP$_2$S$_6$ exhibits a giant birefringence in the blue-ultraviolet regime, with a maximum $\vert n_{OOP} - n_{IP}\vert$ $\sim$ 1.24 at $t \sim$ 22 nm and $\lambda$ = 339.5 nm, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest of any known material in this wavelength regime. We relate changes in CuInP$_2$S$_6$ optical constants to changes in the Cu(I) FE polarization contribution, influenced by its ionic mobility, opening the door to electronic control of its optical response for use in photonics and electro-optics.

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