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 review on morphotropic phase boundary in fluorite-structure hafnia towards DRAM technology

M Jung, V Gaddam, S Jeon - Nano Convergence, 2022 - Springer
In the present hyper-scaling era, memory technology is advancing owing to the demand for
high-performance computing and storage devices. As a result, continuous work on …

Comprehensive Study on the Kinetic Formation of the Orthorhombic Ferroelectric Phase in Epitaxial Y-Doped Ferroelectric HfO2 Thin Films

Y Tashiro, T Shimizu, T Mimura… - ACS Applied Electronic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The crystal structure and ferroelectric properties of 12-to 18 nm-thick epitaxial YO1. 5-HfO2
films with 5–9% YO1. 5 on (111) ITO//(111) YSZ substrates are investigated to clarify the …

A perspective on the physical scaling down of hafnia-based ferroelectrics

JY Park, DH Lee, GH Park, J Lee, Y Lee… - Nanotechnology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
HfO 2-based ferroelectric thin films have attracted significant interest for semiconductor
device applications due to their compatibility with complementary metal oxide …

Optimizing post-metal annealing temperature considering different resistive switching mechanisms in ferroelectric tunnel junction

RH Koo, W Shin, KK Min, D Kwon… - IEEE Electron …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the effect of post-metal annealing temperature () on ferroelectric (FE)
resistive switching (RS) and non-FE RS in HfOx ferroelectric tunnel junctions. Through …

Sub 5 Å-EOT HfZr1–xO₂ for Next-Generation DRAM Capacitors Using Morphotropic Phase Boundary and High-Pressure (200 atm) Annealing With Rapid …

D Das, B Buyantogtokh, V Gaddam… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Achieving low equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) with CMOS-compatible materials is of prime
importance for further miniaturization of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) …

Kinetical phase transition paths and phase stability in ferroelectric HfO2

J Yang, J Liao, J Huang, F Yan, M Liao, Y Zhou - Scripta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Novel ferroelectric HfO 2 films have obtained great attention owing to their super advantages
in electronic applications. However, the phase transition paths and ferroelectric phase …

Power-delay area-efficient processing-in-memory based on nanocrystalline Hafnia ferroelectric field-effect transistors

G Kim, DH Ko, T Kim, S Lee, M Jung… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs) have attracted enormous attention for low-
power and high-density nonvolatile memory devices in processing-in-memory (PIM) …

High performance, amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors with ferroelectric ZrO2 gate insulator by one step annealing

MM Hasan, S Roy, E Tokumitsu, HY Chu, SC Kim… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric thin film transistors (FE-TFTs) are of increasing interest for next generation
memory applications. Post fabrication annealing plays a crucial role to induce ferroelectricity …

Hafnia-Based Ferroelectric Memory: Device Physics Strongly Correlated with Materials Chemistry

H Choi, YH Cho, SH Kim, K Yang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hafnia-based ferroelectrics and their semiconductor applications are reviewed, focusing on
next-generation dynamic random-access-memory (DRAM) and Flash. The challenges of …