Charge tunneling and trapping in Er stabilized β-MnO2 films for memory applications

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (26) ◽  
pp. 263508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Cui ◽  
Ting Ji ◽  
Tianxiao Nie ◽  
Zuimin Jiang
Author(s):  
V. Saikumar ◽  
H. M. Chan ◽  
M. P. Harmer

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of ferroelectric thin films for nonvolatile memory applications and as a gate insulator in DRAM structures. In addition, bulk ferroelectric materials are also widely used as components in electronic circuits and find numerous applications in sensors and actuators. To a large extent, the performance of ferroelectric materials are governed by the ferroelectric domains (with dimensions in the micron to sub-micron range) and the switching of domains in the presence of an applied field. Conventional TEM studies of ferroelectric domains structures, in conjunction with in-situ studies of the domain interactions can aid in explaining the behavior of ferroelectric materials, while providing some answers to the mechanisms and processes that influence the performance of ferroelectric materials. A few examples from bulk and thin film ferroelectric materials studied using the TEM are discussed below.Figure 1 shows micrographs of ferroelectric domains obtained from undoped and Fe-doped BaTiO3 single crystals. The domain boundaries have been identified as 90° domains with the boundaries parallel to <011>.


Author(s):  
Arshid Nisar ◽  
Seema Dhull ◽  
Sparsh Mittal ◽  
Brajesh Kumar Kaushik

Author(s):  
Shujing Jia ◽  
Huanglong Li ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
Zhitang Song ◽  
Min Zhu
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2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Ohzono ◽  
Kaoru Katoh ◽  
Hiroyuki Minamikawa ◽  
Mohand O. Saed ◽  
Eugene M. Terentjev

AbstractNematic liquid crystal elastomers (N-LCE) exhibit intriguing mechanical properties, such as reversible actuation and soft elasticity, which manifests as a wide plateau of low nearly-constant stress upon stretching. N-LCE also have a characteristically slow stress relaxation, which sometimes prevents their shape recovery. To understand how the inherent nematic order retards and arrests the equilibration, here we examine hysteretic stress-strain characteristics in a series of specifically designed main-chain N-LCE, investigating both macroscopic mechanical properties and the microscopic nematic director distribution under applied strains. The hysteretic features are attributed to the dynamics of thermodynamically unfavoured hairpins, the sharp folds on anisotropic polymer strands, the creation and transition of which are restricted by the nematic order. These findings provide a new avenue for tuning the hysteretic nature of N-LCE at both macro- and microscopic levels via different designs of polymer networks, toward materials with highly nonlinear mechanical properties and shape-memory applications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 2170015
Author(s):  
Minh Anh Luong ◽  
Marta Agati ◽  
Nicolas Ratel Ramond ◽  
Jérémie Grisolia ◽  
Yannick Le Friec ◽  
...  

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Young Jin Choi ◽  
Jihyun Kim ◽  
Min Je Kim ◽  
Hwa Sook Ryu ◽  
Han Young Woo ◽  
...  

Donor–acceptor-type organic semiconductor molecules are of great interest for potential organic field-effect transistor applications with ambipolar characteristics and non-volatile memory applications. Here, we synthesized an organic semiconductor, PDPPT-TT, and directly utilized it in both field-effect transistor and non-volatile memory applications. As-synthesized PDPPT-TT was simply spin-coated on a substrate for the device fabrications. The PDPPT-TT based field-effect transistor showed ambipolar electrical transfer characteristics. Furthermore, a gold nanoparticle-embedded dielectric layer was used as a charge trapping layer for the non-volatile memory device applications. The non-volatile memory device showed clear memory window formation as applied gate voltage increases, and electrical stability was evaluated by performing retention and cycling tests. In summary, we demonstrate that a donor–acceptor-type organic semiconductor molecule shows great potential for ambipolar field-effect transistors and non-volatile memory device applications as an important class of materials.


2010 ◽  
Vol 484 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 258-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.D.D. Ma ◽  
K.S. Chan ◽  
D.M. Chen ◽  
S.T. Lee

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Saito ◽  
Shogo Hatayama ◽  
Yi Shuang ◽  
Paul Fons ◽  
Alexander V. Kolobov ◽  
...  

AbstractTwo-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials possess a crystal structure in which a covalently-bonded few atomic-layer motif forms a single unit with individual motifs being weakly bound to each other by vdW forces. Cr2Ge2Te6 is known as a 2D vdW ferromagnetic insulator as well as a potential phase change material for non-volatile memory applications. Here, we provide evidence for a dimensional transformation in the chemical bonding from a randomly bonded three-dimensional (3D) disordered amorphous phase to a 2D bonded vdW crystalline phase. A counterintuitive metastable “quasi-layered” state during crystallization that exhibits both “long-range order and short-range disorder” with respect to atomic alignment clearly distinguishes the system from conventional materials. This unusual behavior is thought to originate from the 2D nature of the crystalline phase. These observations provide insight into the crystallization mechanism of layered materials in general, and consequently, will be useful for the realization of 2D vdW material-based functional nanoelectronic device applications.


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