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Hafnium oxide (HfO2)-based ferroelectrics offer remarkable promise for memory and logic devices in view of their compatibility with traditional silicon CMOS technology, high switchable polarization, good endurance and thickness scalability.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Liam Collins , Umberto Celano

In this work, we propose SEE-MCAM, scalable and compact multi-bit CAM (MCAM) designs that utilize the three-terminal ferroelectric FET (FeFET) as the proxy. By exploiting the multi-level-cell characteristics of FeFETs, our proposed SEE-MCAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shengxi Shou , Che-Kai Liu , Sanggeon Yun , Zishen Wan , Kai Ni , Mohsen Imani , X. Sharon Hu , Jianyi Yang , Cheng Zhuo , Xunzhao Yin

Al1-xScxN has attracted significant interest due to its large remnant polarization and low processing temperature when compared to other ferroelectric material systems. However, device dielectric failure before ferroelectric switching…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Yinuo Zhang , Walter J. Smith , Giovanni Esteves , Eric A. Stach , Thomas E. Beechem , Roy H. Olsson

Topologically protected edge state transport in quantum materials is dissipationless and features quantized Hall conductance, and shows great potential in highly fault-tolerant computing technologies. However, it remains elusive about how…

The emerging paradigm of abundant-data computing requires real-time analytics on enormous quantities of data collected by a mushrooming network of sensors. Todays computing technology, however, cannot scale to satisfy such big data…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Seunghyun Lee , Joon Sohn , Zizhen Jiang , Hong-Yu Chen , H. -S. Philip Wong

This work reports back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible, thin-film transistors (TFTs) with sub-10 nm tungsten-doped tin oxide (TWO) channels deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) at 150 $^\circ$C. TFTs with undoped SnO$_{\mathrm{x}}$,…

Ferromagnetic-ferroelectric nanocomposites are of interest for realizing strong strain mediated coupling between electric and magnetic subsystems due to high surface area-to-volume ratio. This report is on the synthesis of nickel ferrite…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-27 G. Sreenivasulu , Jitao Zhang , Ru Zhang , M. Popov , V. M. Petrov , G. Srinivasan

Thickness scaling of ferroelectricity in AlScN is a determining factor for its potential application in neuromorphic computing and memory devices. In this letter, we report on ultrathin (10 nm) Al0.72Sc0.28N films that are ferroelectrically…

Ferroelectric thin films present a powerful platform for next generation computing and memory applications. However, domain morphology and dynamics in buried ferroelectric stacks have remained underexplored, despite the importance for real…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-29 Megan O. Hill Landberg , Bixin Yan , Huaiyu Chen , Efe Ipek , Morgan Trassin , Jesper Wallentin

Computationally hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are ubiquitous in many applications, including logistical planning, resource allocation, chip design, drug explorations, and more. Due to their critical significance and the…

In this work, we demonstrate atomic-layer-deposited (ALD) single-channel indium oxide (In2O3) gate-all-around (GAA) nanoribbon FETs in a back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible process. A maximum on-state current (ION) of 19.3 mA/{\mu}m (near 20…

Back-end-of-line (BEOL) logic integration is emerging as a complementary scaling path to supplement front-end-of-line (FEOL) Silicon. Among various options for BEOL logic, Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (CNFETs) have been…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Andrew Yu , Tathagata Srimani , Max Shulaker

Brain-inspired computing and neuromorphic hardware are promising approaches that offer great potential to overcome limitations faced by current computing paradigms based on traditional von-Neumann architecture. In this regard, interest in…

Electrides, with excess anionic electrons confined in their empty space, are promising for uses in catalysis, nonlinear optics and spin-electronics. However, the application of electrides is limited by their high chemical reactivity with…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 Xuhui Yang , Kevin Parrish , Yan-Ling Li , Baisheng Sa , Hongbing Zhan , Qiang Zhu

Over the past decades, the relentless scaling and mass production of flash memory have underpinned the data-centric era. Yet charge-trap-based 3D NAND flash is now constrained by intrinsic physical and architectural limits, including…

Extraordinary physical properties arise at polar interfaces in oxide materials, including the emergence of two-dimensional electron gases, sheet-superconductivity, and multiferroicity. A special type of polar interface are ferroelectric…

Ferroelectric-based capacitive crossbar arrays have been proposed for energy-efficient in-memory computing in the charge domain. They combat the challenges like sneak paths and high static power faced by resistive crossbar arrays but are…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Madhav Vadlamani , Dyutimoy Chakraborty , Jianwei Jia , Halid Mulaosmanovic , Stefan Duenkel , Sven Beyer , Suman Datta , Shimeng Yu

We demonstrate a non-volatile magnetoelectric magnonic memory (MEMM) that enables fully electrical write/read via direct magnon-driven sensing in an insulating antiferromagnet. A fabricated SrIrO3/La-BiFeO3/SrIrO3 trilayer exhibits sub-100…

Scaling superconducting quantum processors beyond single dilution refrigerators requires efficient optical interconnects, yet integrating microwave-to-optical (M2O) transducers poses challenges due to frequency mismatches and qubit…

Wurtzite ferroelectrics are rapidly emerging as a promising material class for next-generation non-volatile memory technologies, owing to their large remanent polarization, intrinsically ordered three-dimensional crystal structure, and full…