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Variation Caused by Spatial Distribution of Dielectric and Ferroelectric Grains in a Negative Capacitance Field-Effect Transistor

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In this article, a new scheme was proposed to consider the dielectric (DE) phases inside polycrystalline ferroelectric (FE) materials, and a Sentaurus TCAD structure was constructed with the extracted parameters, and the simulated P-E curve was in a good agreement with the experimental data.
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We propose a new scheme to consider the dielectric (DE) phases inside polycrystalline ferroelectric (FE) materials. The scheme is used to extract material parameters from experimental polarization-electric field (P-E) measurements from the literature. A Sentaurus TCAD structure is constructed with the extracted parameters, and the simulated P-E curve is in a good agreement with the experimental data. Furthermore, variation of the device performance in a negative capacitance field-effect transistor (NCFET) due to the spatial distribution of DE and FE phases is studied using Sentaurus TCAD. It is found that the resultant variations of on and off currents can be up to 14.44% and 30.23%, respectively, thus showing the impact of inhomogeneous crystalline phases of the FE material on device performance.

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Proposal for Capacitance Matching in Negative Capacitance Field-Effect Transistors

TL;DR: A new approach using multi-layer FE to engineer the shape of negative-capacitance field-effect transistor is discussed, and the results show that it leads to better sub-threshold swing as well as lower power supply.
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Variability Analysis for Ferroelectric FET Nonvolatile Memories Considering Random Ferroelectric-Dielectric Phase Distribution

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the random ferroelectric-dielectric (FE-DE) phase distribution on the memory window (MW) of the Ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET) nonvolatile memory (NVM) with the aid of TCAD atomistic simulations was investigated.
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Grain Size Engineering of Ferroelectric Zr-doped HfO 2 for the Highly Scaled Devices Applications

TL;DR: In this article, the grain properties of 12-nm-thick HZO films are investigated and optimized by altering the atomic layer deposition (ALD) cycle ratio of HfO2 and ZrO2 at a constant Zr concentration.
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A memory window expression to evaluate the endurance of ferroelectric FETs

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical expression for the Memory Window (MW) is proposed to evaluate the endurance of nonvolatile memories based on ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs), which is defined as the difference between threshold voltages occurring due to polarization switching.
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Optimization of NCFET by Matching Dielectric and Ferroelectric Nonuniformly Along the Channel

TL;DR: In this paper, a new design to overcome the nonuniformity of capacitance matching along the channel of a negative capacitance field effect transistor is presented, in which the thickness of SiO2 at the edge regions of the channel can be increased while maintaining the thickness at the center region.
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