Ferroelectric hafnium oxide based materials and devices: Assessment of current status and future prospects

J Müller, P Polakowski, S Mueller… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Bound to complex perovskite systems, ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) suffers
from limited CMOS-compatibility and faces severe scaling issues in today's and future …

Crystallinity of inorganic films grown by atomic layer deposition: Overview and general trends

V Miikkulainen, M Leskelä, M Ritala… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is gaining attention as a thin film deposition method, uniquely
suitable for depositing uniform and conformal films on complex three-dimensional …

The origin of ferroelectricity in Hf1− xZrxO2: A computational investigation and a surface energy model

R Materlik, C Künneth, A Kersch - Journal of Applied Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The structural, thermal, and dielectric properties of the ferroelectric phase of HfO 2, ZrO 2,
and Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 (HZO) are investigated with carefully validated density functional …

Ferroelectricity in Simple Binary ZrO2 and HfO2

J Muller, TS Boscke, U Schroder, S Mueller… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The transition metal oxides ZrO2 and HfO2 as well as their solid solution are widely
researched and, like most binary oxides, are expected to exhibit centrosymmetric crystal …

Surface and grain boundary energy as the key enabler of ferroelectricity in nanoscale hafnia-zirconia: A comparison of model and experiment

MH Park, YH Lee, HJ Kim, T Schenk, W Lee, K Do Kim… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The unexpected ferroelectric properties of nanoscale hafnia-zirconia are considered to be
promising for a wealth of applications including ferroelectric memory, field effect transistors …

Ferroelectricity in undoped hafnium oxide

P Polakowski, J Müller - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We report the observation of ferroelectric characteristics in undoped hafnium oxide thin films
in a thickness range of 4–20 nm. The undoped films were fabricated using atomic layer …

14nm ferroelectric FinFET technology with steep subthreshold slope for ultra low power applications

Z Krivokapic, U Rana, R Galatage… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Doped hafnia ferroelectric layers with thicknesses from 3 to 8nm are integrated into state-of-
the-art 14nm FinFET technology without any further process modification. Ferroelectric …

Evolution of ferroelectric HfO2 in ultrathin region down to 3 nm

X Tian, S Shibayama, T Nishimura, T Yajima… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The ferroelectric properties of ultrathin Y-doped HfO 2 films were investigated.
Ferroelectricity was demonstrated experimentally in 3 nm-thick Y-doped HfO 2 via direct …

Surface chemistry of atomic layer deposition: A case study for the trimethylaluminum/water process

RL Puurunen - Journal of applied physics, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Atomic layer deposition (ALD), a chemical vapor deposition technique based on sequential
self-terminating gas–solid reactions, has for about four decades been applied for …

Nonaqueous Chemistry of Group 4 Oxo Clusters and Colloidal Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

D Van den Eynden, R Pokratath, J De Roo - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
We review the nonaqueous precursor chemistry of the group 4 metals to gain insight into the
formation of their oxo clusters and colloidal oxide nanocrystals. We first describe the …