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 …

Polarization Switching and Correlated Phase Transitions in Fluorite‐Structure ZrO2 Nanocrystals

X Li, H Zhong, T Lin, F Meng, A Gao, Z Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unconventional ferroelectricity in fluorite‐structure oxides enables tremendous opportunities
in nanoelectronics owing to their superior scalability and silicon compatibility. However, their …

Ferroelectric Orthorhombic ZrO2 Thin Films Achieved Through Nanosecond Laser Annealing

APS Crema, MC Istrate, A Silva, V Lenzi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A new approach for the stabilization of the ferroelectric orthorhombic ZrO2 films is
demonstrated through nanosecond laser annealing (NLA) of as‐deposited Si/SiOx/W (14 …

A robust high-performance electronic synapse based on epitaxial ferroelectric Hf0. 5Zr0. 5O2 films with uniform polarization and high Curie temperature

Y Wang, Q Wang, J Zhao, T Niermann, Y Liu, L Dai… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) is a promising emerging memristor for the artificial
synapse in neuro-inspired computing, which has parallel data processing and low power …

Crystallographic structure and ferroelectricity of epitaxial hafnium oxide thin films

SK Lee, CW Bark - Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society, 2022 - Springer
Devices using silicon-based materials have been studied and developed by the
semiconductor industry. With silicon-based materials reaching their performance limit, there …

Influence of the Ozone Dose Time during Atomic Layer Deposition on the Ferroelectric and Pyroelectric Properties of 45 nm-Thick ZrO2 Films

B Xu, L Collins, KM Holsgrove… - ACS Applied …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over a decade ago, ferroelectricity was discovered in doped HfO2 thin films. The HfO2-
based thin films have attracted much attention due to their remarkable scalability and CMOS …

Influence of Si-Doping on 45 nm Thick Ferroelectric ZrO2 Films

B Xu, PD Lomenzo, A Kersch, T Mikolajick… - ACS Applied …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the last decades, ferroelectricity has been discovered in Si-doped HfO2 and Hf1–x Zr x O2
thin films, and the origin of ferroelectricity is considered to be the presence of the polar Pca …

Stabilization of the epitaxial rhombohedral ferroelectric phase in by surface energy

A El Boutaybi, T Maroutian, L Largeau, S Matzen… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Doped HfO 2 and HfO 2-ZrO 2 compounds are gaining significant interest thanks to their
ferroelectric properties in ultrathin films. Here, we show that ZrO 2 could be a playground for …

Ferroelectric ZrO 2 phases from infrared spectroscopy

A El Boutaybi, R Cervasio, A Degezelle… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate ferroelectric thin films of ZrO2 experimentally and theoretically using infrared
(IR) absorption spectroscopy coupled with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroelectric (hf, zr, la) o2 films

T Song, S Estandía, I Fina, F Sánchez - Applied Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The impact of La, Zr and Hf content on the crystal phases and ferroelectric and
dielectric properties of (Hf, Zr, La) O 2 has been determined by investigating epitaxial films …