Hafnium Oxide (HfO2) – A Multifunctional Oxide: A Review on the Prospect and Challenges of Hafnium Oxide in Resistive Switching and Ferroelectric Memories

W Banerjee, A Kashir, S Kamba - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hafnium oxide (HfO2) is one of the mature high‐k dielectrics that has been standing strong
in the memory arena over the last two decades. Its dielectric properties have been …

Interplay between oxygen defects and dopants: effect on structure and performance of HfO 2-based ferroelectrics

M Materano, PD Lomenzo, A Kersch… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ten years after the first report on ferroelectricity in HfO2, researchers are still occupied
unraveling the different causes behind this phenomenon. Among them, oxygen related …

Highly enhanced ferroelectricity in HfO2-based ferroelectric thin film by light ion bombardment

S Kang, WS Jang, AN Morozovska, O Kwon, Y **… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Continuous advancement in nonvolatile and morphotropic beyond-Moore electronic devices
requires integration of ferroelectric and semiconductor materials. The emergence of hafnium …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-thin ferroelectrics

H Qiao, C Wang, WS Choi, MH Park, Y Kim - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Device applications of ferroelectrics have not only utilized the switchable polarization but
also adopted myriads of emerging physical properties. In particular, ferroelectrics in ultra …

Vibrational fingerprints of ferroelectric HfO2

S Fan, S Singh, X Xu, K Park, Y Qi, SW Cheong… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
Hafnia (HfO2) is a promising material for emerging chip applications due to its high-κ
dielectric behavior, suitability for negative capacitance heterostructures, scalable …

Room temperature ferroelectricity and an electrically tunable Berry curvature dipole in III–V monolayers

A Naseer, A Priydarshi, P Ghosh, R Ahammed… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional ferroelectric monolayers are promising candidates for compact memory
devices and flexible electronics. Here, through first-principles calculations, we predict room …

Leakage mechanism in ferroelectric Hf0. 5Zr0. 5O2 epitaxial thin films

X Cheng, C Zhou, B Lin, Z Yang, S Chen… - Applied Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Fluorite-structured Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 (HZO) thin films have attracted considerable
attention in recent years because of their good CMOS-compatibility and robust …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of Chamber/Annealing Temperature on the Endurance Characteristic of Zr:HfO2 Ferroelectric Capacitor

Y Choi, C Han, J Shin, S Moon, J Min, H Park, D Eom… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The endurance characteristic of Zr-doped HfO2 (HZO)-based metal–ferroelectric–metal
(MFM) capacitors fabricated under various deposition/annealing temperatures in the atomic …

Nucleation mechanism of multiple-order parameter ferroelectric domain wall motion in hafnia

S Zhou, AM Rappe - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025 - pnas.org
Ferroelectric hafnia exhibits promising robust polarization and silicon compatibility for
ferroelectric devices. Unfortunately, it suffers from difficult polarization switching. Methods to …

Precise control of fatigue, wake-up, charge injection, and break-down in Hf0. 5Zr0. 5O2-based ferroelectric memories

N Liu, C Luo, H Wu, Y Ding, X Lu, Z Yan, JM Liu… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 (HZO) thin films are promising for applications in ferroelectric memories.
However, these materials often face challenges, such as polarization fluctuations (eg …