Dawn of nitride ferroelectric semiconductors: from materials to devices

P Wang, D Wang, S Mondal, M Hu… - Semiconductor Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
III-nitride semiconductors are promising optoelectronic and electronic materials and have
been extensively investigated in the past decades. New functionalities, such as …

New-Generation Ferroelectric AlScN Materials

Y Zhang, Q Zhu, B Tian, C Duan - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Ferroelectrics have great potential in the field of nonvolatile memory due to programmable
polarization states by external electric field in nonvolatile manner. However, complementary …

In‐Grain Ferroelectric Switching in Sub‐5 nm Thin Al0.74Sc0.26N Films at 1 V

G Schönweger, N Wolff, MR Islam… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Analog switching in ferroelectric devices promises neuromorphic computing with the highest
energy efficiency if limited device scalability can be overcome. To contribute to a solution …

Unveiling the Pockels coefficient of ferroelectric nitride ScAlN

G Yang, H Wang, S Mu, H Xie, T Wang, C He… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nitride ferroelectrics have recently emerged as promising alternatives to oxide ferroelectrics
due to their compatibility with mainstream semiconductor processing. ScAlN, in particular …

Ferroelectric N-polar ScAlN/GaN heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy

P Wang, D Wang, S Mondal, Z Mi - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate robust ferroelectricity in single-crystalline wurtzite phase N-polar
ScAlN/GaN heterostructures grown on on-axis c-plane sapphire substrates by molecular …

Local chemical origin of ferroelectric behavior in wurtzite nitrides

K Yazawa, JS Mangum, P Gorai… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferroelectricity enables key modern technologies from non-volatile memory to precision
ultrasound. The first known wurtzite ferroelectric Al1− xScxN has recently attracted attention …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization induced interface and electron sheet charges of pseudomorphic ScAlN/GaN, GaAlN/GaN, InAlN/GaN, and InAlN/InN heterostructures

O Ambacher, B Christian, M Yassine… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The piezoelectric and spontaneous polarization of wurtzite Sc x Al 1− x N, Ga x Al 1− x N,
and In x Al 1− x N ternary compounds dramatically affects the electrical properties of …

[HTML][HTML] Epitaxial ScxAl1− xN on GaN exhibits attractive high-K dielectric properties

J Casamento, H Lee, T Maeda, V Gund… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Epitaxial Sc x Al 1− x N thin films of∼ 100 nm thickness grown on metal polar GaN
substrates are found to exhibit significantly enhanced relative dielectric permittivity (ε r) …

[HTML][HTML] Wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices

JB Varley, B Shen, M Higashiwaki - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The technological and societal impacts of electronic devices based on Ge, Si, and
compound semiconductors like GaAs have been profound, fueling the decades long quest …

A mm-wave trilayer AlN/ScAlN/AlN higher order mode FBAR

S Nam, W Peng, P Wang, D Wang, Z Mi… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern wireless communication systems are increasingly complex with greater functionality
and impose new challenges on the radio frequency (RF) front-end design. One of the major …