Recent experimental studies have shown lanthanum-doped hafnium oxide (La:HfO 2) possessing ferroe... more Recent experimental studies have shown lanthanum-doped hafnium oxide (La:HfO 2) possessing ferroelectric properties. This material is of special interest since it is based on lead-free, simple binary oxide of HfO 2 , and has excellent endurance property (1 × 10 9 field cycles without fatigue. There exists substantial information about the material aspects of La:HfO 2 but it lacks proven application potential for CMOS-compatible low-power memory design. In this work, 10 % La metal cation fraction of HfO 2 (La:HfO 2) is proposed as the gate stack material in tunnel FET (TFET) for its potential as a memory device. 2D device simulations are carried out to show that the proposed ferroelectric TFET (FeTFET) provides the largest memory window (MW) as compared to present perovskite ferroelectric materials such as PZT, SBT (SrBi 2 Ta 2 O 9) and silicon doped (4.6 % Si in HfO 2) hafnium oxide (Si:HfO 2). The larger window is attributed to greater polarization, and the calculation of MW is quantified by the shift in threshold voltage (V th). The simulations carried out in this work suggest that La:HfO 2 can be adopted as a potential ferroelectric material to target low-power FeTFET design at significantly reduced ferroelectric layer thickness.
Recent experimental studies have shown lanthanum-doped hafnium oxide (La:HfO 2) possessing ferroe... more Recent experimental studies have shown lanthanum-doped hafnium oxide (La:HfO 2) possessing ferroelectric properties. This material is of special interest since it is based on lead-free, simple binary oxide of HfO 2 , and has excellent endurance property (1 × 10 9 field cycles without fatigue. There exists substantial information about the material aspects of La:HfO 2 but it lacks proven application potential for CMOS-compatible low-power memory design. In this work, 10 % La metal cation fraction of HfO 2 (La:HfO 2) is proposed as the gate stack material in tunnel FET (TFET) for its potential as a memory device. 2D device simulations are carried out to show that the proposed ferroelectric TFET (FeTFET) provides the largest memory window (MW) as compared to present perovskite ferroelectric materials such as PZT, SBT (SrBi 2 Ta 2 O 9) and silicon doped (4.6 % Si in HfO 2) hafnium oxide (Si:HfO 2). The larger window is attributed to greater polarization, and the calculation of MW is quantified by the shift in threshold voltage (V th). The simulations carried out in this work suggest that La:HfO 2 can be adopted as a potential ferroelectric material to target low-power FeTFET design at significantly reduced ferroelectric layer thickness.
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