Prospects of hysteresis-free abrupt switching (0 mV/decade) in landau switches

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4269-4276

  Jain, Ankit ^a   Alam, Muhammad Ashraful ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi stable systems; ferroelectric; instability; nonlinearity; phase transition; two well energy landscape

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; LOW POWER APPLICATION; NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE; NONLINEARITY; SUBTHRESHOLD SWING; SUSPENDED GATE FETS; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS;

CAPACITANCE; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HYSTERESIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASMA STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84889567199     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2013.2286997     Document Type: Article

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