Room-temperature negative capacitance in a ferroelectric-dielectric superlattice heterostructure

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5814-5819

  Gao, Weiwei ^a   Khan, Asif ^a   Marti, Xavi ^b,c   Nelson, Chris ^d   Serrao, Claudy ^a   Ravichandran, Jayakanth ^d   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^d,e,f   Salahuddin, Sayeef ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

epitaxial strain; ferroelectric; Room temperature negative capacitance; superlattice

Indexed keywords

SUPERLATTICES;

EPITAXIAL STRAIN; NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84907870426     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl502691u     Document Type: Article

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