Dimensional scaling of ferroelectric properties of hafnia-zirconia thin films: Electrode interface effects

F Huang, B Saini, L Wan, H Lu, X He, S Qin, W Tsai… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hafnia-based ferroelectric (FE) thin films are promising candidates for semiconductor
memories. However, a fundamental challenge that persists is the lack of understanding …

Interface Phenomena and Emerging Functionalities in Ferroelectric Oxide Based Heterostructures

Y Hao, T Li, X Hong - Chemical Communications, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Leveraging the nonvolatile, nanoscale controllable polarization, ferroelectric perovskite
oxides can be integrated with various functional materials for designing emergent …

Depth‐Resolved X‐Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Evidence of Intrinsic Polar States in HfO2‐Based Ferroelectrics

MO Hill, JS Kim, ML Müller, D Phuyal… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of ferroelectricity in nanoscale hafnia‐based oxide films has spurred interest
in understanding their emergent properties. Investigation focuses on the size‐dependent …

Coexistence and Interplay of Two Ferroelectric Mechanisms in Zn1‐xMgxO

J Yang, AV Ievlev, AN Morozovska… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric materials promise exceptional attributes including low power dissipation, fast
operational speeds, enhanced endurance, and superior retention to revolutionize …

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 …

Ferroelastically protected reversible orthorhombic to monoclinic-like phase transition in ZrO2 nanocrystals

X Li, Z Liu, A Gao, Q Zhang, H Zhong, F Meng, T Lin… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Robust ferroelectricity in nanoscale fluorite oxide-based thin films enables promising
applications in silicon-compatible non-volatile memories and logic devices. However, the …

Atomic-scale structure of ZrO2: Formation of metastable polymorphs

AP Solomon, EC O'Quinn, J Liu, IM Gussev, X Guo… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Metastable phases can exist within local minima in the potential energy landscape when
they are kinetically “trapped” by various processing routes, such as thermal treatment, grain …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on low-power electronics

R Ramesh, S Salahuddin, S Datta, CH Diaz… - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This article is written on behalf of many colleagues, collaborators, and researchers in the
field of advanced materials who continue to enable and undertake cutting-edge research in …

Effective Landau-type model of a -graphene nanostructure

AN Morozovska, MV Strikha, KP Kelley, SV Kalinin… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
To describe charge-polarization coupling in the nanostructure formed by a thin Hf x Zr 1− x O
2 film with single-layer graphene as the top electrode, we develop the “effective” Landau …

Electrically induced cancellation and inversion of piezoelectricity in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2

H Lu, DJ Kim, H Aramberri, M Holzer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
HfO2-based thin films hold huge promise for integrated devices as they show full
compatibility with semiconductor technologies and robust ferroelectric properties at …