Towards ferroelectric field effect transistors in 4H-silicon carbide

• We report on the integration of ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) thin films on 4H-silicon carbide and their electrical properties. The structures of metal-ferroelectric-(insulator)-semiconductor MF(I)S and metal-ferroelectric-metal-insulator-semiconductor MFMIS have been fabricated and characterized. The MFMIS structures of Au/PZT/Pt/Ti/SiO2/SiC have shown fully saturated P-E hysteresis loops with remnant polarization Pr = 14.2 ÎŒC/cm2 and coercive field Ec = 58.9 kV/cm. The MFIS structures exhibited stable capacitance-voltage C-V loops with low conductance (<0.1 mS/cm2, tan ÎŽ ∌ 0.0007 at 12 V, 400 kHz) and memory window as wide as 10 V, when a 5 nm-thick Al2O3 was used as a high bandgap (Eg ∌ 9 eV) barrier buffer layer between PZT (Eg ∌ 3.5 eV) and SiC (Eg ∌ 3.2 eV). Both structures on n- and p- SiC have shown electrical properties promising for the application to the gate stacks for the SiC field-effect transistors (FETs) and the design and process issues on different types of the metal-ferroelectric-silicon carbide field-effect transistors (FETs) have also been proposed.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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Ferroelectricity

Field effect transistors

Hysteresis

Microelectronics

Oxides

Thin films

Ferroelectric oxides

Silicon carbide

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