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In 1963, Moll and Tarui suggested that the field-effect conductance of a semiconductor could be controlled by the remanent polarization of a ferroelectric (FE) material to create a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FE-FET). However,…

Serial connection of multiple memory cells using perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (pMTJ) is proposed as a way to increase magnetic random access memory (MRAM) storage density. Multi-bit storage element is designed using pMTJs…

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The demands of modern electronic components require advanced computing platforms for efficient information processing to realize in-memory operations with a high density of data storage capabilities towards developing alternatives to von…

The coexistence and coupling between magnetization and electric polarization in multiferroic materials provide extra degrees of freedom for creating next-generation memory devices. A variety of concepts of multiferroic or magnetoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-23 Jianxin Shen , Junzhuang Cong , Dashan Shang , Yisheng Chai , Shipeng Shen , Kun Zhai , Young Sun

The magnetoelectric effects in multiferroics have a great potential in creating next-generation memory devices. We conceive a new concept of non-volatile memories based on a type of nonlinear magnetoelectric effects showing a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-17 Jianxin Shen , Junzhuang Cong , Yisheng Chai , Dashan Shang , Shipeng Shen , Kun Zhai , Ying Tian , Young Sun

In this work, we evaluate a multitude of metal-oxide bi-layers and demonstrate the benefits from increased memory stability via multibit memory operation. We introduce a programming methodology that allows for operating metal-oxide…

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Floating gate transistor is the basic building block of non-volatile flash memory, which is one of the most widely used memory gadgets in modern micro and nano electronic applications. Recently there has been a surge of interest to…

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Online training of deep neural networks (DNN) can be significantly accelerated by performing in-situ vector matrix multiplication in a crossbar array of analog memories. However, training accuracies often suffer due to device non-idealities…

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We study the impact of top SiO2 interlayer thickness on the memory window (MW) of Si channel ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) with TiN/SiO2/Hf0.5Zr0.5O2/SiOx/Si (MIFIS) gate structure. We find that the MW increases with the…

Tri-gate ferroelectric FETs with Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 gate insulator for memory and neuromorphic applications are fabricated and characterized for multi-level operation. The conductance and threshold voltage exhibit highly linear and symmetric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Darsen D. Lu , Sourav De , Mohammed Aftab Baig , Bo-Han Qiu , Yao-Jen Lee

The ultimate goal of multiferroic research is the development of new-generation non-volatile memory devices, the so-called magnetoelectric (ME) memories, where magnetic bits are controlled via electric fields without the application of…

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT FETs) have been proposed as possible building blocks for future nano-electronics. But a challenge with CNT FETs is that they appear to randomly display varying amounts of hysteresis in their…

The persistent and switchable polarization of ferroelectric materials based on HfO$_2$-based ferroelectric compounds, compatible with large-scale integration, are attractive synaptic elements for neuromorphic computing. To achieve a record…

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We propose 2D Piezoelectric FET (PeFET) based compute-enabled non-volatile memory for ternary deep neural networks (DNNs). PeFETs consist of a material with ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties coupled with Transition Metal…

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Optical phase shifters are essential elements in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and function as a direct interface to program the PIC. Non-volatile phase shifters, which can retain information without a power supply, are highly…

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Heavy computational demands from artificial intelligence (AI) leads the research community to explore the design space for functional materials that can be used for high performance memory and neuromorphic computing hardware. Novel device…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Xinye Li , Padma Srivari , Sayani Majumdar

All-electric-controlled nonvolatile spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) based on two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures hold great promise for advanced spintronics applications. However, their performance…

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