The fundamentals and applications of ferroelectric HfO2

U Schroeder, MH Park, T Mikolajick… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Since the first report of ferroelectricity in a Si-doped HfO2 film in 2011, HfO2-based materials
have attracted much interest from the ferroelectric materials and devices community …

A practical guide to pulsed laser deposition

NA Shepelin, ZP Tehrani, N Ohannessian… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoscale thin films are widely implemented across a plethora of technological and
scientific areas, and form the basis for many advancements that have driven human …

Emergent ferroelectricity in subnanometer binary oxide films on silicon

SS Cheema, N Shanker, SL Hsu, Y Rho, CH Hsu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The critical size limit of voltage-switchable electric dipoles has extensive implications for
energy-efficient electronics, underlying the importance of ferroelectric order stabilized at …

Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon

SS Cheema, D Kwon, N Shanker, R Dos Reis, SL Hsu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrathin ferroelectric materials could potentially enable low-power logic and nonvolatile
memories,. As ferroelectric materials are made thinner, however, the ferroelectricity is …

Hafnium Oxide (HfO2) – A Multifunctional Oxide: A Review on the Prospect and Challenges of Hafnium Oxide in Resistive Switching and Ferroelectric Memories

W Banerjee, A Kashir, S Kamba - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hafnium oxide (HfO2) is one of the mature high‐k dielectrics that has been standing strong
in the memory arena over the last two decades. Its dielectric properties have been …

Strain engineering: a boosting strategy for photocatalysis

Y Miao, Y Zhao, S Zhang, R Shi, T Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Whilst the photocatalytic technique is considered to be one of the most significant routes to
address the energy crisis and global environmental challenges, the solar‐to‐chemical …

Progress on emerging ferroelectric materials for energy harvesting, storage and conversion

XK Wei, N Domingo, Y Sun, N Balke… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of Rochelle salt a century ago, ferroelectric materials have been
investigated extensively due to their robust responses to electric, mechanical, thermal …

Redox reactions of small organic molecules using ball milling and piezoelectric materials

K Kubota, Y Pang, A Miura, H Ito - Science, 2019 - science.org
Over the past decade, photoredox catalysis has harnessed light energy to accelerate bond-
forming reactions. We postulated that a complementary method for the redox-activation of …

Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

The evolution of multiferroics

M Fiebig, T Lottermoser, D Meier, M Trassin - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Materials with a coexistence of magnetic and ferroelectric order—multiferroics—provide an
efficient route for the control of magnetism by electric fields. The study of multiferroics dates …