Macroscopic and microscopic picture of negative capacitance operation in ferroelectric capacitors

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Esseni ◽  
Riccardo Fontanini

The negative capacitance (NC) operation of ferroelectric materials has been originally proposed based on a homogeneous Landau theory, leading to a simple NC stabilization condition expressed in terms of macroscopic...

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 3743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hoffmann ◽  
Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran ◽  
Asif Islam Khan

The Landau theory of phase transitions predicts the presence of a negative capacitance in ferroelectric materials based on a mean-field approach. While recent experimental results confirm this prediction, the microscopic origin of negative capacitance in ferroelectrics is often debated. This study provides a simple, physical explanation of the negative capacitance phenomenon—i.e., ‘S’-shaped polarization vs. electric field curve—without having to invoke the Landau phenomenology. The discussion is inspired by pedagogical models of ferroelectricity as often presented in classic text-books such as the Feynman lectures on Physics and the Introduction of Solid State Physics by Charles Kittel, which are routinely used to describe the quintessential ferroelectric phenomena such as the Curie-Weiss law and the emergence of spontaneous polarization below the Curie temperature. The model presented herein is overly simplified and ignores many of the complex interactions in real ferroelectrics; however, this model reveals an important insight: The polarization catastrophe phenomenon that is required to describe the onset of ferroelectricity naturally leads to the thermodynamic instability that is negative capacitance. Considering the interaction of electric dipoles and saturation of the dipole moments at large local electric fields we derive the full ‘S’-curve relating the ferroelectric polarization and the electric field, in qualitative agreement with Landau theory.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 102076
Author(s):  
Georgia Andra Boni ◽  
Cristina Chirila ◽  
Lucian Dragos Filip ◽  
Ioana Pintilie ◽  
Lucian Pintilie

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Yuan Zhang ◽  
Xiao-Qing Sun ◽  
Jun-Shuai Chai ◽  
Hao Xu ◽  
Xue-Li Ma ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 022901
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Zhang ◽  
Xiaoqing Sun ◽  
Junshuai Chai ◽  
Hao Xu ◽  
Xueli Ma ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paramjit Kour ◽  
Sudipta Kishore Pradhan

The spectrums of properties exhibited by ferroelectric materials are dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric and pyroelectric effect. This is the makes these materials to have a wide range of useful application. Infrared detectors are used pyroelectric effect of ferroelectric materials. It is used in nonvolatile memories due to have ferroelectric hysteresis. Its piezoelectric properties make them useful for actuator, radio frequency filter, sensor, and transducer. Ferroelectric capacitors are used, their good dielectric behavior. According to the necessity of the system they are available in different form such as single crystals, ceramics, thin film, and polymer, composite. The diversity of properties ferroelectric materials always attracted the attention of engineers and researchers. Size reduction of this material from micro to nanoscale established an enormous consideration to develop nanotechnology. Its vast use of different filed imposed the in detail research in adding to the development of processing and characterization method. This chapter will put some light on some fundamental principle of ferroelectricity, the list of perovskite materials and their application.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2141
Author(s):  
Taegeon Kim ◽  
Changhwan Shin

Ferroelectric materials have received significant attention as next-generation materials for gates in transistors because of their negative differential capacitance. Emerging transistors, such as the negative capacitance field effect transistor (NCFET) and ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET), are based on the use of ferroelectric materials. In this work, using a multidomain 3D phase field model (based on the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation), we investigate the impact of the interface-trapped charge (Qit) on the transient negative capacitance in a ferroelectric capacitor (i.e., metal/Zr-HfO2/heavily doped Si) in series with a resistor. The simulation results show that the interface trap reinforces the effect of transient negative capacitance.


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