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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

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

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

The Boltzmann distribution of electrons poses a fundamental barrier to lowering energy dissipation in conventional electronics, often termed as Boltzmann Tyranny. Negative capacitance in ferroelectric materials, which stems from the stored…

This paper investigates the thermodynamic driving force of transient negative capacitance (NC) in the series circuit of the resistor and ferroelectric capacitor (R-FEC). We find that the widely used Landau-Khalatnikov (L-K) theory, that is,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Yuanyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Sun , Junshuai Chai , Hao Xu , Xueli Ma , Jinjuan Xiang , Kai Han , Xiaolei Wang , Wenwu Wang

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…

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

The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals (LC) have been reported to show an extraordinarily large value of the real part of the dielectric constant at low frequencies. However, it was argued by Clark et al in…

Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) couple the direction of their spontaneous electric polarization to the direction of tilt of their optic axis. Consequently, reversal of the electric polarization by an electric field gives rise to an…

We investigated the electrical properties of the liquid crystal compound, known as an RM734, exhibiting a ferroelectric nematic phase. The influence of alternating (AC) and direct (DC) current electric fields on the switching process of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-04 Mateusz Mrukiewicz , Paweł Perkowski , Jakub Karcz , Przemysław Kula

Polarization flutter, produced by an applied AC electric field drives an equilibrium ferroelectric nematic ($\mathrm{N_F}$) liquid crystal (LC) through a transition into a dissipative active ferroelectric nematic state exhibiting strong…

Boltzmann tyranny poses a fundamental limit to lowering the energy dissipation of conventional MOS devices, a minimum increase of the gate voltage, i.e. 60 mV, is required for a 10-fold increase in drain-to-source current at 300 K. Negative…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Ali Saeidi , Farzan Jazaeri , Igor Stolichnov , Christian C. Enz , Adrian M. ionescu

The electrocaloric (EC) effect offers a promising energy-efficient and clean cooling technology. We present the first direct measurements of EC temperature change in a new family of EC fluids, ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (FNLCs),…

The combination of large spontaneous polarization and fluidity makes the newly discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phase (NF) responsive to electric fields in ways that have no counterpart in other materials. We probe this…

Numerous measurements of the dielectric constant $\epsilon$ of the recently discovered ferroelectric nematic ($N_F$) liquid crystal (LC) phase report extraordinarily large values of $\epsilon^\prime$ (up to ~30,000). We show that what is in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-26 Noel A. Clark , Xi Chen , Joseph E. Maclennan , Matthew A. Glaser

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

We theoretically explore mechanisms that can potentially give rise to the steady-state and transient negative capacitance in a uniaxial ferroelectric film stabilized by a dielectric layer. The analytical expressions for the steady-state…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Eugene. A. Eliseev , Mykola E. Yelisieiev , Sergei V. Kalinin , Anna N. Morozovska

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

Recently discovered ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals are fluids with a polar orientational order. The electric polarization vector can be aligned by an electric field and by surface anchoring. Here, we explore how the polarization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-27 Ashish Chandra Das , Sathyanarayana Paladugu , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

The recent discovery of transient negative capacitance has sparked an intense debate on the role of homogeneous and inhomogeneous mechanisms in polarizations switching. In this work, we report observation of transient negative capacitance…

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