Ferroelectric order in van der Waals layered materials

D Zhang, P Schoenherr, P Sharma… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Structurally different from conventional oxide ferroelectrics with rigid lattices, van der Waals
(vdW) ferroelectrics have stable layered structures with a combination of strong intralayer …

Hafnium Oxide (HfO2) – A Multifunctional Oxide: A Review on the Prospect and Challenges of Hafnium Oxide in Resistive Switching and Ferroelectric Memories

W Banerjee, A Kashir, S Kamba - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hafnium oxide (HfO2) is one of the mature high‐k dielectrics that has been standing strong
in the memory arena over the last two decades. Its dielectric properties have been …

Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Ferroelectric photovoltaic materials and devices

X Han, Y Ji, Y Yang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric materials have been a focus of much research over the last few decades for
their unique piezoelectric and optoelectronic properties. Conventional solar cells have been …

Exploring Ferroelectric Switching in α‐In2Se3 for Neuromorphic Computing

L Wang, X Wang, Y Zhang, R Li, T Ma… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, 2D ferroelectrics have attracted extensive interest as a competitive platform for
implementing future generation functional electronics, including digital memory and brain …

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions: modulations on the potential barrier

Z Wen, D Wu - Advanced materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) have attracted considerable attention for
potential applications in next‐generation memories, owing to attractive advantages such as …

Arising applications of ferroelectric materials in photovoltaic devices

Y Yuan, Z Xiao, B Yang, J Huang - Journal of Materials chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The ferroelectric-photovoltaic (FE-PV) device, in which a homogeneous ferroelectric material
is used as a light absorbing layer, has been investigated during the past several decades …

Enabling ultra-low-voltage switching in BaTiO3

Y Jiang, E Parsonnet, A Qualls, W Zhao, S Susarla… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Single crystals of BaTiO3 exhibit small switching fields and energies, but thin-film
performance is considerably worse, thus precluding their use in next-generation devices …

Ferroelectric negative capacitance

J Íñiguez, P Zubko, I Luk'yanchuk, A Cano - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The capacitor is a key element of electronic devices and is characterized by positive
capacitance. However, a negative capacitance (NC) behaviour may occur in certain cases …

Ultrathin oxide films and interfaces for electronics and spintronics

M Bibes, JE Villegas, A Barthélémy - Advances in Physics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Oxides have become a key ingredient for new concepts of electronic devices. To a large
extent, this is due to the profusion of new physics and novel functionalities arising from …