Dielectric breakdown of oxide films in electronic devices

A Padovani, P La Torraca, J Strand, L Larcher… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Dielectric breakdown is a sudden and catastrophic increase in the conductivity of an
insulator caused by electrical stress. It is one of the major reliability issues in electronic …

[HTML][HTML] Dielectric breakdown in HfO2 dielectrics: Using multiscale modeling to identify the critical physical processes involved in oxide degradation

J Strand, P La Torraca, A Padovani, L Larcher… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We use a multi-scale modeling to study the time-dependent dielectric breakdown of an
amorphous (a-) HfO 2 insulator in a metal–oxide–metal capacitor. We focus on the role …

High‐Temporal‐Resolution Characterization Reveals Outstanding Random Telegraph Noise and the Origin of Dielectric Breakdown in h‐BN Memristors

S Pazos, T Becker, MA Villena, W Zheng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Memristor‐based electronic memory have recently started commercialization, although its
market size is small (~ 0.5%). Multiple studies claim their potential for hardware …

Insights into synaptic functionality and resistive switching in lead iodide flexible memristor devices

M Jain, MJ Patel, L Liu, J Gosai, M Khemnani… - Nanoscale …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Neuromorphic platforms are gaining popularity due to their superior efficiency, low power
consumption, and adaptable parallel signal processing capabilities, overcoming the …

Imaging dielectric breakdown in valence change memory

WA Hubbard, JJ Lodico, HL Chan… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dielectric breakdown (DB) controls the failure, and increasingly the function, of
microelectronic devices. Standard imaging techniques, which generate contrast based on …

Enhanced tunneling electro-resistance ratio for ferroelectric tunnel junctions by engineering metal work function

YF Chen, LW Hsu, CW Hu, GT Lai… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The structure of metal electrode/HfZrO x (HZO)/AlON/n+-Si was employed as the platform to
study how the effective work function (EWF) of the electrode affects the characteristics of the …

Advancement of gate oxides from SiO2 to high-k dielectrics in microprocessor and memory

U Sharma, G Kumar, S Mishra… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicon and its native oxides (SiO 2) have led the continuous development in the integrated
circuits for decades. The excellent insulating properties of SiO 2 and silicon/SiO 2 interface …

Effect of electric field on defect generation and migration in

JW Strand, J Cottom, L Larcher, AL Shluger - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Understanding the effect of electric fields on defect creation and diffusion in metal oxides is
of fundamental importance for develo** accurate models of oxide degradation in …

Impact of bilayered oxide stacks on the breakdown transients of metal–oxide–semiconductor devices: An experimental study

SM Pazos, S Boyeras Baldomá, FL Aguirre… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The role of the bilayered structure of the gate oxide on the dynamics of progressive
breakdown is systematically studied on Au/Cr/HfO 2/Al 2 O 3/InGaAs metal–oxide …

Study of direct tunneling and dielectric breakdown in molecular beam epitaxial hexagonal boron nitride monolayers using metal–insulator–metal devices

Z Cui, Y He, H Tian, A Khanaki, L Xu… - ACS Applied …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Direct tunneling and dielectric breakdown in molecular beam epitaxial hexagonal boron
nitride (h-BN) monolayers were studied based on Ni/h-BN/Ni metal–insulator–metal (MIM) …