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Transient negative differential capacitance (NC), the dynamic reversal of transient capacitance in an electrical circuit is of highly technological and scientific interest since it probes the foundation of ferroelectricity. In this letter,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Sou-Chi Chang , Uygar E. Avci , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young

Negative capacitance (NC) in ferroelectrics, which stems from the imperfect screening of polarization, is considered a viable approach to lower voltage operation in the field-effect transistors (FETs) used in logic switches. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-07 Kwok Ng , Steven J. Hillenius , Alexei Gruverman

The transient negative capacitance (NC) of solid ferroelectric materials used in field effect transistors can reduce the power dissipation of electronics. Here we show that similar negative capacitance appears in the recently discovered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-30 Netra Prasad Dhakal , Alex Adaka , Robert J. Twieg , Antal Jákli

Integrating ferroelectric negative capacitance (NC) into the field-effect transistor (FET) promises to break fundamental limits of power dissipation known as Boltzmann tyranny. However, realizing the stable static negative capacitance in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 I. Luk'yanchuk , A. Razumnaya , A. Sené , Y. Tikhonov , V. M. Vinokur

We report on measurements and modeling of FE HfZrO/SiO2 Ferroelectric-Dielectric (FE-DE) FETs which indicate that many of the phenomena attributed to Negative Capacitance can be explained by a delayed response of ferroelectric domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Borna Obradovic , Titash Rakshit , Ryan Hatcher , Jorge Kittl , Mark S. Rodder

Physical phenomena underlying operation of ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs) is treated within a unified simulation framework. The framework incorporates the Landau mean-field treatment of free energy of a ferroelectric and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Sou-Chi Chang , Uygar E. Avci , Dmitri. E. Nikonov , Ian A. Young

The negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) provides the key mechanism for realizing thermal transistors. This exotic effect has been the object of an extensive theoretical investigation, but the implementation is still limited to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Shobhit Saheb Dey , Giuliano Timossi , Luigi Amico , Giampiero Marchegiani

A theory of a new magnetodynamic effect describing the energy exchange between the degrees of freedom of a conducting cylinder moving in a helical magnetic field has been developed. The possibility of effectively converting the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 M. D. Tokman , V. L. Bratman , E. Magori , N. Balal

Transient negative capacitance effects in epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr$_{0.2}$Ti$_{0.8}$)O$_3$ capacitors are investigated with a focus on the dynamical switching behavior governed by domain nucleation and growth. Voltage pulses are…

A topological quantum field effect transistor (TQFET) uses electric field to switch a material from topological insulator ("on", with conducting edge states) to a conventional insulator ("off"), and can have low subthreshold swing due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Michael S. Fuhrer , Mark T. Edmonds , Dimitrie Culcer , Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang , Nikhil Medhekar , Yuefeng Yin , Jared H Cole

We present a thorough analysis of the foundations of models of stabilization of negative capacitance (NC) in a ferroelectric (FE) layer by capacitance matching to a dielectric layer, which claim that the FE is stabilized in a low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 J. A. Kittl , J. -P. Locquet , M. Houssa , V. V. Afanasiev

The study investigates the influence of negative capacitance on the transfer characteristics of vdW FETs on the heterophase of CIPS ferroelectric. Notably, a less pronounced NC resulting from the spatial distribution of the ferroelectric…

Nontrivial capacitance behavior, including a negative capacitance (NC) effect, observed in a variety of semiconductor devices, is discussed emphasizing the physical mechanism and the theoretical interpretation of experimental data. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Ershov , H. C. Liu , L. Li , M. Buchanan , Z. R. Wasilewski , A. K. Jonscher

We analyze the distributions of electric potential and field, polarization and charge, and the differential capacitance of a silicon metal-oxide-ferroelectric field effect transistor (MOSFET), in which a gate insulator consists of thin…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Eugene A. Eliseev , Anna N. Morozovska , Lesya P. Yurchenko , Maksym V. Strikha

The pressing quest for overcoming Boltzmann tyranny in low-power nanoscale electronics revived the thoughts of engineers of early 1930-s on the possibility of negative circuit constants. The concept of the ferroelectric-based negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 I. Luk'yanchuk , Y. Tikhonov , A. Sene , A. Razumnaya , V. M. Vinokur

Negative capacitance can be used to overcome the lower limit of subthreshold swing (SS) in field effect transistors (FETs), enabling ultralow-power microelectronics, though the concept of ferroelectric negative capacitance remains…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Yuchu Qin , Jiangyu Li

Following up on the recently published circuit theory for thermodynamic devices, we consider networks of Thermo-Electric Converters (TECs) in stationary non-equilibrium. Assuming constant thermoelectric properties, the integration over a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-30 Paul Raux , Christophe Goupil , Gatien Verley

We employ classical molecular dynamics to study the nonlinear thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). For GNRs under large temperature biases beyond linear response regime, we have observed the onset of negative differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Jiuning Hu , Yan Wang , Ajit Vallabhaneni , Xiulin Ruan , Yong P. Chen

Negative differential conductance (NDC) manifests as a significant characteristic of various underlying physics and transport processes in hybrid superconducting devices. In this work, we report the observation of gate-tunable NDC outside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mingli Liu , Dong Pan , Tian Le , Jiangbo He , Zhongmou Jia , Shang Zhu , Guang Yang , Zhaozheng Lyu , Guangtong Liu , Jie Shen , Jianhua Zhao , Li Lu , Fanming Qu

The elegant simplicity of the device concept and the urgent need for a new "transistor" at the twilight of Moore's law have inspired many researchers in industry and academia to explore the physics and technology of negative capacitance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Muhammad A. Alam , Mengwei Si , Peide D. Ye
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