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With the recent experimental verification that ferroelectric lattice distortions survive in the metallic phase of some materials, there is a desire to create devices that are both switchable and take advantage of the novel functionalities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Kelsey S. Chapman , W. A. Atkinson

This paper reports the fatigue and retention behavior for Al1-xBxN thin films, a member of the novel family of wurtzite ferroelectrics, with an emphasis on the role of capacitor architecture. By modifying the capacitor architecture, and…

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

The most characteristic functional property of antiferroelectric materials is the possibility to induce a phase transition from a non-polar to a polar phase by an electric field. Here, we investigate the effect of this field-induced phase…

Atomic-scale ferroelectric thin films hold great promise for high-density, low-power applications but face stability and voltage scaling challenges at extreme thinness. Here, we demonstrate ferroelectricity in single-crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-27 Tong Jiang , Han Chen , Yubo Yuan , Xiang Xu , Junwei Cao , Hao Wang , Xuechun Sun , Junshuai Li , Yaqing Ma , Huaze Zhu , Wenbin Li , Wei Kong

We identify a first-order, isosymmetric transition between a ferrielectric (FiE) and ferroelectric (FE) state in $A$-site ordered LaScO$_{3}$/BiScO$_{3}$ and LaInO$_{3}$/BiInO$_{3}$ superlattices. Such a previously unreported ferroic…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-11 Gaoyang Gou , James M. Rondinelli

Multiferroic (MF) devices based on simultaneous ferroelectric and ferromagnetic phenomena are considered to be promising candidates for future bi-functional micro/nano-electronics. The multiferroic phenomena in two-dimensional materials is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Rabia Tahir , Sabeen Fatima , Syedah Afsheen Zahra , Deji Akinwande , Syed Rizwana

We investigated domain kinetics by measuring the polarization switching behaviors of polycrystalline Pb(Zr,Ti)O$_{3}$ films, which are widely used in ferroelectric memory devices. Their switching behaviors at various electric fields and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Y. Jo , H. S. Han , J. -G. Yoon , T. K. Song , S. -H. Kim , T. W. Noh

A ferroelectric is a material with a polar structure whose polarity can be reversed by applying an electric field. In metals, the itinerant electrons tend to screen electrostatic forces between ions, helping to explain why polar metals are…

Several families of layered perovskite oxide ferroelectrics exhibit a coupling between polarization and structural order parameters, such as octahedral rotation distortions. This coupling provides opportunities for novel electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-08 Nabaraj Pokhrel , Elizabeth A. Nowadnick

A new mechanism for memristive switching in 2D materials is through electric-field controllable electronic/structural phase transitions, but these devices have not outperformed status quo 2D memristors. Here, we report a high-performance…

Under a sufficiently high applied electric field, a non-polar antiferroelectric material, such as \ce{PbZrO3}, can undergo a rapid transformation to a polar ferroelectric phase. While this behavior is promising for energy storage and…

Ferroelectric materials with switchable spontaneous polarization underpin non-volatile memories, transistors, sensors, and emerging neuromorphic chips. Their performance and stability are governed by polarization dynamics and domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Dongyu Bai , Ri He , Junxian Liu , Liangzhi Kou

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics with switchable out-of-plane polarization such as monolayer $\alpha$-In$_2$Se$_3$ offers a new avenue for ultrathin high-density ferroelectric-based nanoelectronics such as ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-01 Jing Wu , Liyi Bai , Jiawei Huang , Liyang Ma , Jian Liu , Shi Liu

With the broad recent research on ferroelectric hafnium oxide for non-volatile memory technology, depolarization effects in HfO2-based ferroelectric devices gained a lot of interest. Understanding the physical mechanisms regulating the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Luca Fehlings , Thomas Mikolajick , Beatriz Noheda , Erika Covi

Wurtzite ferroelectrics (e.g., $\mathrm{Al_{0.93}B_{0.07}N}$) are being explored for high-temperature and emerging near-, or in-compute, memory architectures due to the material advantages offered by their large remanent polarization and…

Wurtzite ferroelectrics, particularly aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN), have emerged as a promising materials platform for nonvolatile memories, offering high polarization values exceeding 100 uC/cm2. However, their high coercive fields…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-21 Hyunmin Cho , Yubo Wang , Chloe Leblanc , Yinuo Zhang , Yunfei He , Zirun Han , Roy H. Olsson , Deep Jariwala

Prospective spintronic memory and logic devices will benefit from the negligible stray field and ultrafast magnetic dynamics inherent to antiferromagnets [1]. However, realizing isothermal, nonvolatile, and deterministic switching of…

Ferroelectricity is characterized by the presence of spontaneous and switchable macroscopic polarization. Scaling limits of ferroelectricity have been of both fundamental and technological importance, but the probes of ferroelectricity have…

We demonstrate ferroelectric (FE) memory transistors on a crystalline silicon channel with endurance exceeding $10^{10}$ cycles. The ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs) incorporate a high-$\kappa$ interfacial layer (IL) of thermally grown…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ava Jiang Tan , Yu-Hung Liao , Li-Chen Wang , Jong-Ho Bae , Chenming Hu , Sayeef Salahuddin