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Ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of lanthanoid-substituted Bi4Ti3O12 thin films grown on (111)Pt and (100)IrO2 electrodes

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Piezoelectric softening by Nb substitution in (Ba,Pb)ZrO

Dragan Damjanovic, Nava Setter, Alberto Biancoli, Nicola Marzari, David Bahati

Donor doping is commonly applied for softening of the piezoelectric and dielectric properties and facilitation of polarization switching in the ubiquitous Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 [PZT] ceramics. The origin of the donor-dopant effects is not entirely clear. (Pb,Ba)ZrO ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Characterization methodology for lead zirconate titanate thin films with interdigitated electrode structures

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon, Trygve Magnus Raeder

The accurate evaluation of ferroelectric thin films operated with interdigitated electrodes is quite a complex task. In this article, we show how to correct the electric field and the capacitance in order to obtain identical polarization and CV loops for a ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Internal electric fields and electrode effects in ferroelectric thin films for piezoelectric energy harvesting

Robin Nigon

The continuing decrease of power requirements of electronic circuits offers the potential to deploy wireless systems as embedded sensors for cars or industrial tools, and implanted medical devices. Harvesting ambient vibrations by an appropriate energy har ...

EPFL2017

Domain Pinning: Comparison of Hafnia and PZT Based Ferroelectrics

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon

Even though many studies on the field cycling behavior of ferroelectric hafnium oxide have recently been published, the issue is still not fully understood. The initial increase of polarization during first cycles is explained by different theoretical and ...

Wiley2017

Manipulation of the Two-Dimensional States at Titanates Surfaces studied by ARPES

Stefan Peter Muff

The transition metal oxides are known for their versatile physical properties and are therefore an active field of research towards possible new functionalities and applications. This thesis focuses on the subgroup of titanates with perovskite structure th ...

EPFL2017

High diffusion barrier and piezoelectric nanocomposites based on polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer and hydrophobized clay

Dragan Damjanovic, Yves Leterrier, Sara Dalle Vacche, Alex Dommann, Antonia Neels, Olha Sereda

Nanocomposites based on polyvinylidene fluoride– trifluoroethylene copolymer and up to 4 vol % of hydrophobized clay nanoparticles are investigated. The structure, piezoelectric properties, and oxygen permeability of solvent cast films are analyzed before ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Static negative capacitance of a ferroelectric nano-domain nucleus

Nava Setter, Pavel Mokry, Tomas Sluka

Miniaturization of conventional field effect transistors (FETs) approaches the fundamental limits beyond which opening and closing the transistor channel require higher gate voltage swing and cause higher power dissipation and heating. This problem could b ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Negative Capacitance Tunnel FETs: Experimental Demonstration of Outstanding Simultaneous Boosting of On-current, Transconductance, Overdrive, and Swing

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi

This paper demonstrates and experimentally reports the highest ever performance boosting in strained silicon-nanowire homojunction TFETs with negative capacitance, provided by matched PZT capacitors. Outstanding enhancements of Ion, gm, and overdrive are a ...

2017

Negative Capacitance as Performance Booster for Tunnel FETs and MOSFETs: An Experimental Study

Christian Enz, Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi, Francesco Bellando

This letter reports for the first time a full experimental study of performance boosting of tunnel FETs (TFETs) and MOSFETs by negative capacitance (NC) effect. We discuss the importance of capacitance matching between a ferroelectric NC and a device capac ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017