Wake-up and fatigue mechanisms in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 films with symmetric RuO2 electrodes
Abstract
In this work, the mechanisms leading to wake-up and fatigue in ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide thin film devices with symmetric RuO2 electrodes are investigated via polarization, relative permittivity, dielectric nonlinearity, pyroelectric coefficient, and microfocus X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. The devices are observed to wake-up for up to 103 bipolar pulsed field cycles, after which fatigue occurs with the polarization approaching zero following 108 cycles. Wake-up is accompanied by a decrease in both high-field permittivity and hysteresis loop pinching and an increase in pyroelectric coefficient, indicating that the wake-up process involves a combination of transformations from the tetragonal to the orthorhombic phase and domain depinning from defect redistribution. Fatigue is observed to coincide with an increase in irreversible domain wall motion and a decrease in pyroelectric coefficient. Finite pyroelectric coefficients are measured on fully fatigued devices, indicating that domain pinning is a strong contributor to fatigue and that fatigued devices contain domain structures that are unable to switch under the fields applied for measurement. Microfocus XRD patterns measured on each device reveal that the phase constitution is qualitatively unaffected by the field cycling and resultant polarization fatigue. This data indicates that the wake-up process has contributions from both phase transformations andmore »
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- Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1831810
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1823498
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0021118; NA0003525; CHE-2018870; DGE-1842490
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 130; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-8979
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Thin film devices; Pyroelectricity; Ferroelectric materials; X-ray diffraction; Electrical properties and parameters; Electrodes; Crystal structure; Phase transitions
Citation Formats
Fields, Shelby S., Smith, Sean W., Jaszewski, Samantha T., Mimura, Takanori, Dickie, Diane A., Esteves, Giovanni, David Henry, M., Wolfley, Steve L., Davids, Paul S., and Ihlefeld, Jon F. Wake-up and fatigue mechanisms in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 films with symmetric RuO2 electrodes. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1063/5.0064145.
Fields, Shelby S., Smith, Sean W., Jaszewski, Samantha T., Mimura, Takanori, Dickie, Diane A., Esteves, Giovanni, David Henry, M., Wolfley, Steve L., Davids, Paul S., & Ihlefeld, Jon F. Wake-up and fatigue mechanisms in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 films with symmetric RuO2 electrodes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0064145
Fields, Shelby S., Smith, Sean W., Jaszewski, Samantha T., Mimura, Takanori, Dickie, Diane A., Esteves, Giovanni, David Henry, M., Wolfley, Steve L., Davids, Paul S., and Ihlefeld, Jon F. Mon .
"Wake-up and fatigue mechanisms in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 films with symmetric RuO2 electrodes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0064145. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1831810.
@article{osti_1831810,
title = {Wake-up and fatigue mechanisms in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 films with symmetric RuO2 electrodes},
author = {Fields, Shelby S. and Smith, Sean W. and Jaszewski, Samantha T. and Mimura, Takanori and Dickie, Diane A. and Esteves, Giovanni and David Henry, M. and Wolfley, Steve L. and Davids, Paul S. and Ihlefeld, Jon F.},
abstractNote = {In this work, the mechanisms leading to wake-up and fatigue in ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide thin film devices with symmetric RuO2 electrodes are investigated via polarization, relative permittivity, dielectric nonlinearity, pyroelectric coefficient, and microfocus X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. The devices are observed to wake-up for up to 103 bipolar pulsed field cycles, after which fatigue occurs with the polarization approaching zero following 108 cycles. Wake-up is accompanied by a decrease in both high-field permittivity and hysteresis loop pinching and an increase in pyroelectric coefficient, indicating that the wake-up process involves a combination of transformations from the tetragonal to the orthorhombic phase and domain depinning from defect redistribution. Fatigue is observed to coincide with an increase in irreversible domain wall motion and a decrease in pyroelectric coefficient. Finite pyroelectric coefficients are measured on fully fatigued devices, indicating that domain pinning is a strong contributor to fatigue and that fatigued devices contain domain structures that are unable to switch under the fields applied for measurement. Microfocus XRD patterns measured on each device reveal that the phase constitution is qualitatively unaffected by the field cycling and resultant polarization fatigue. This data indicates that the wake-up process has contributions from both phase transformations and domain depinning, whereas the fatigue process is driven primarily by domain pinning, and the near-zero measured switchable polarization is actually a poled device with immobile domains. These observations provide insight into the physical changes occurring during field cycling of HfO2-based ferroelectrics while examining a possible oxide electrode material for silicon CMOS device implementation.},
doi = {10.1063/5.0064145},
journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
number = 13,
volume = 130,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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