Wurtzite and fluorite ferroelectric materials for electronic memory

KH Kim, I Karpov, RH Olsson III, D Jariwala - Nature Nanotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroelectric materials, the charge equivalent of magnets, have been the subject of
continued research interest since their discovery more than 100 years ago. The …

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 …

Role of Defects in the Breakdown Phenomenon of Al1–xScxN: From Ferroelectric to Filamentary Resistive Switching

R Guido, T Mikolajick, U Schroeder, PD Lomenzo - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aluminum scandium nitride (Al1–x Sc x N), with its large remanent polarization, is an
attractive material for high-density ferroelectric random-access memories. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] A Landau–Devonshire analysis of strain effects on ferroelectric Al1− xScxN

K Yazawa, A Zakutayev, GL Brennecka - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We present a thermodynamic analysis of the recently discovered nitride ferroelectric
materials using the classic Landau–Devonshire approach. Electrostrictive and dielectric …

Nanoscale compositional segregation in epitaxial AlScN on Si (111)

X Zhang, EA Stach, WJ Meng, AC Meng - Nanoscale Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the growth of epitaxial wurtzite AlScN thin films on Si (111) substrates with a wide
range of Sc concentrations using ultra-high vacuum reactive sputtering. Sc alloying in AlN …

Impact of operation voltage and NH 3 annealing on the fatigue characteristics of ferroelectric AlScN thin films grown by sputtering

K Do Kim, YB Lee, SH Lee, IS Lee, SK Ryoo, SY Byun… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This work investigates the impact of the magnitude of cycling voltage on the fatigue
characteristics of 40 nm-thick AlScN ferroelectric thin film. The fatigue rate and the …

Effect of Substrate-RF on Sub-200 nm Al0.7Sc0.3N Thin Films

M Pirro, X Zhao, B Herrera, P Simeoni, M Rinaldi - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sc-doped aluminum nitride is emerging as a new piezoelectric material which can substitute
undoped aluminum nitride (AlN) in radio-frequency MEMS applications, thanks to its …

Towards low-temperature processing of lead-free BZT thin films for high-temperature energy storage performance

MD Nguyen - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, lead-free BaZr 0.35 Ti 0.65 O 3 (BZT) thin films were grown on silicon by using
pulsed laser deposition. The phase structures of the BZT thin films were controlled via the …

Single crystal ferroelectric AlScN nanowires

X Zhang, W Xu, WJ Meng, AC Meng - CrystEngComm, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the considerable potential and significant promise of aluminum scandium nitride
(AlScN) ferroelectric materials for neuromorphic computing applications, challenges related …

[HTML][HTML] Lattice-matched multiple channel AlScN/GaN heterostructures

TS Nguyen, N Pieczulewski, C Savant, JJP Cooper… - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
AlScN is a new wide bandgap, high-k, ferroelectric material for radio frequency (RF),
memory, and power applications. Successful integration of high-quality AlScN with GaN in …