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Article Dans Une Revue Applied Physics Letters Année : 2022

Sub-10-nm ferroelectric Gd-doped HfO2 layers

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Sub-10 nm thick gadolinium-doped hafnia (Gd:HfO2) layers were grown in metal–insulator–metal (TiN/Gd:HfO2/TiN) stacks using a plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition process. Thermally annealed Gd:HfO2 layers with a thickness of 8.8, 6.6, and 4.4 nm exhibited orthorhombic crystalline structure and showed ferroelectric properties. Indeed, polarization vs electric field hysteresis loops were recorded with 2Pr polarization ranging from 2 to 20 μC/cm2. The studied layers showed the same coercive electric field (∼2 MV/cm). Consequently, polarization switching voltage between +Pr and −Pr decreased down to 0.9 V for the thinnest layer. Remanent polarization cycling showed a strong wake-up effect, with no fatigue, up to 109, followed by a stabilization up to 1010 cycles, where 2Pr reached 33 μC/cm2 for 8.8 nm Gd:HfO2. This endurance result and the absence of noticeable remanent polarization fatigue can be attributed to the optimal chemical composition of the TiN/Gd:HfO2 interface, which is supposed to be at the origin of defect generation, mostly oxygen vacancies, that leads to ferroelectric polarization fatigue.
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hal-04511227 , version 1 (19-03-2024)

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E. Skopin, N. Guillaume, L. Alrifai, P. Gonon, A. Bsiesy. Sub-10-nm ferroelectric Gd-doped HfO2 layers. Applied Physics Letters, 2022, 120 (17), ⟨10.1063/5.0088505⟩. ⟨hal-04511227⟩
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