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Tuneable capacitors are vital for adaptive and reconfigurable electronics, yet existing approaches require continuous bias or mechanical actuation. Here we demonstrate a voltage-programmable ferroelectric memcapacitor based on HfZrO that…

Quantitative description of finite-temperature properties of displacive ferroelectrics, and in particular the critical behavior, is of fundamental importance to both theory and device design, going beyond the Landau-Ginzburg approach, which…

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The infinite-dimensional Hubbard model is studied by means of a modified perturbation theory. The approach reduces to the iterative perturbation theory for weak coupling. It is exact in the atomic limit and correctly reproduces the…

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We show that the electric polarization at the interface with ultrathin superconducting (S) films sandwiched between ferroelectric (FE) layers allows achievement of substantially stronger modulation of inner carrier density and…

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Fabrication process-induced performance variability remains a formidable barrier in the high-volume manufacturing of semiconductor chips. With skyrocketing Artificial Intelligence (AI) workload, demand for non-volatile and computational…

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Hexagonal ferrites do not only have enormous commercial impact ({\pounds}2 billion/year in sales) due to applications that include ultra-high density memories, credit card stripes, magnetic bar codes, small motors and low-loss microwave…

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The wake-up phenomenon widely exists in hafnia-based ferroelectric capacitors, which causes device parameter variation over time. Crystallization at higher temperatures have been reported to be effective in eliminating wake-up, but high…

On-chip thermometry at deep-cryogenic temperatures is vital in quantum computing applications to accurately quantify the effect of increased temperature on qubit performance. In this work, we present a sub-1 K temperature sensor in CMOS…

Incipient ferroelectric KTaO3 with off-center Li impurity of the critical concentration of 2.8 mol% was investigated in order to clarify the dipole glass state under electric field. Using optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscope,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroko Yokota , Taeko Ohyama , Yoshiaki Uesu

Polycrystalline hafnia-based thin films exhibit mixed ferroelectric (FE), antiferroelectric (AFE), and dielectric (DE) behavior, with switching characteristics strongly influenced by microstructure and phase distribution. Here, we develop a…

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In this paper, we report on the charge transport properties of hybrid nanoparticles (NPs) based on the polymeric 1D compound [Fe(Htrz)2(trz)](BF4), which is one of the most promising SCO systems for designing electronic devices. In…

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Although technologically challenging, the integration of ferroelectric thin films with graphene spintronics potentially allows the realization of highly efficient, electrically tuneable, non-volatile memories. Here, the atomic layer…

Quantum kinetically constrained models can exhibit a wealth of dynamical phenomena ranging from anomalous transport to Hilbert-space fragmentation (HSF). We study a class of one-dimensional particle number conserving systems where particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-02 Cheng Wang , Zhi-Cheng Yang

Hafnia (HfO2) is a promising material for emerging chip applications due to its high-k dielectric behaviour, suitability for negative capacitance heterostructures, scalable ferroelectricity, and silicon compatibility. The lattice dynamics…

The electronic quasiparticle spectrum of a ferromagnetic film is investigated within the framework of the s-f model. Starting from the exact solvable case of a single electron in an otherwise empty conduction band being exchange coupled to…

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We consider an open quantum system in contact with fermionic metallic reservoirs in a nonequilibrium setup. For the case of spin, orbital or potential fluctuations, we present a systematic formulation of real-time renormalization group at…

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While nanoscale electronic logic circuits are well-established, the development of na-noscale thermal logic circuits has been slow, mainly due to the absence of efficient and controllable nonvolatile field-effect thermal transistors. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 Yong-Kun Huo , Hui-Feng Feng , Chao Yao , Zhong-Xiao Song , Zhi-Xin Guo

Hafnium dioxide (HfO2) is a CMOS-compatible ferroelectric showing both 180{\deg} and 90{\deg} switching, yet the microscopic nature of the 90{\deg} pathway remains unresolved. We show that the 90{\deg} rotation pathway, negligible in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-26 Muting Xie , Hongyu Yu , Zhihao Dai , Yingfen Wei , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang

Electric field-induced studies, including phase transition and polarization hysteresis, for ferroelectric HfO2 at the atomic scale are critical since they can largely affect its application in ferroelectric and dielectric devices. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-14 Po-Yen Chen , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

After decades of searching for robust nanoscale ferroelectricity that could enable integration into the next generation memory and logic devices, hafnia-based thin films have appeared as the ultimate candidate because their ferroelectric…