Negative capacitance in a ferroelectric-dielectric heterostructure for ultra low-power computing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8461, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Salahuddin, Sayeef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84872118695     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.933587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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