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 …

The future of ferroelectric field-effect transistor technology

AI Khan, A Keshavarzi, S Datta - Nature Electronics, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of ferroelectricity in oxides that are compatible with modern semiconductor
manufacturing processes, such as hafnium oxide, has led to a re-emergence of the …

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 …

Giant energy storage and power density negative capacitance superlattices

SS Cheema, N Shanker, SL Hsu, J Schaadt, NM Ellis… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Dielectric electrostatic capacitors, because of their ultrafast charge–discharge, are desirable
for high-power energy storage applications. Along with ultrafast operation, on-chip …

Scale-free ferroelectricity induced by flat phonon bands in HfO2

HJ Lee, M Lee, K Lee, J Jo, H Yang, Y Kim, SC Chae… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Discovery of robust yet reversibly switchable electric dipoles at reduced dimensions is
critical to the advancement of nanoelectronics devices. Energy bands flat in momentum …

HfO2-based ferroelectrics: From enhancing performance, material design, to applications

H Chen, X Zhou, L Tang, Y Chen, H Luo… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Nonvolatile memories are in strong demand due to the desire for miniaturization, high-speed
storage, and low energy consumption to fulfill the rapid developments of big data, the …

Kinetically stabilized ferroelectricity in bulk single-crystalline HfO2:Y

X Xu, FT Huang, Y Qi, S Singh, KM Rabe… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
HfO2, a simple binary oxide, exhibits ultra-scalable ferroelectricity integrable into silicon
technology. This material has a polymorphic nature, with the polar orthorhombic (Pbc 21) …

Ferroelectricity and Antiferroelectricity of Doped Thin HfO2‐Based Films

MH Park, YH Lee, HJ Kim, YJ Kim, T Moon… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The recent progress in ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in HfO2‐based thin films is
reported. Most ferroelectric thin film research focuses on perovskite structure materials, such …

The origin of ferroelectricity in Hf1− xZrxO2: A computational investigation and a surface energy model

R Materlik, C Künneth, A Kersch - Journal of Applied Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The structural, thermal, and dielectric properties of the ferroelectric phase of HfO 2, ZrO 2,
and Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 (HZO) are investigated with carefully validated density functional …

Ferroelectric hafnium oxide for ferroelectric random-access memories and ferroelectric field-effect transistors

T Mikolajick, S Slesazeck, MH Park, U Schroeder - Mrs Bulletin, 2018 - cambridge.org
Ferroelectrics are promising for nonvolatile memories. However, the difficulty of fabricating
ferroelectric layers and integrating them into complementary metal oxide semiconductor …