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 …

Fully epitaxial ferroelectric ScAlN grown by molecular beam epitaxy

P Wang, D Wang, NM Vu, T Chiang, JT Heron… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the demonstration of ferroelectricity in ScxAl1-xN grown by molecular beam
epitaxy on GaN templates. Distinct polarization switching is unambiguously observed for …

Thickness scaling down to 5 nm of ferroelectric ScAlN on CMOS compatible molybdenum grown by molecular beam epitaxy

D Wang, P Wang, S Mondal, M Hu, D Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the thickness scaling behavior of ferroelectric Sc 0.3 Al 0.7 N (ScAlN) films
grown on Mo substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. Switchable ferroelectricity is confirmed …

Fully epitaxial ferroelectric ScGaN grown on GaN by molecular beam epitaxy

D Wang, P Wang, B Wang, Z Mi - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the ferroelectric properties of single-phase wurtzite ScGaN grown on GaN by
plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Distinct ferroelectric switching behavior was …

Impact of dislocation density on the ferroelectric properties of ScAlN grown by molecular beam epitaxy

D Wang, P Wang, S Mondal, Y **ao, M Hu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the effect of dislocation density on the ferroelectric properties of single-
crystalline ScAlN thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Wurtzite phase and atomically …

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 …

Switching it up: New mechanisms revealed in wurtzite-type ferroelectrics

CW Lee, K Yazawa, A Zakutayev, GL Brennecka… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Wurtzite-type ferroelectrics have drawn increasing attention due to the promise of better
performance and integration than traditional oxide ferroelectrics with semiconductors such …

Complementary-switchable dual-mode SHF scandium aluminum nitride BAW resonator

D Mo, S Dabas, S Rassay… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator with complementary switchable
operation in the first and second thickness extensional modes (TE 1 and TE 2) at 7.04 and …

Tunable Ferroelectric Properties in Wurtzite (Al0.8Sc0.2)N via Crystal Anisotropy

S Yasuoka, R Mizutani, R Ota, T Shiraishi… - ACS Applied …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The effect of pure mechanical strain on ferroelectricity was investigated for (001)-one-axis-
oriented (Al0. 8Sc0. 2) N films deposited on (111) Pt-coated substrates with different thermal …