Experimental observation of negative capacitance in ferroelectrics at room temperature

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3864-3868

  Appleby, Daniel J R ^a   Ponon, Nikhil K ^a   Kwa, Kelvin S K ^a   Zou, Bin ^b   Petrov, Peter K ^b   Wang, Tianle ^b   Alford, Neil M ^b   O'Neill, Anthony ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ferroelectric; Negative capacitance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

BATIO; ENGINEERED DEVICES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LOW-POWER OPERATION; NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SRTIO; SUBTHRESHOLD SLOPE;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 84904023203     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl5017255     Document Type: Article

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