Supra-Binary Polarization in a Ferroelectric Nanowire
© 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Veröffentlicht in: | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 33(2021), 26 vom: 21. Juli, Seite e2101981 |
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Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
Sprache: | English |
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) |
Schlagworte: | Journal Article Landau-Ginzburg theory ferroelectric nanowires field-effect transistors graphene nanoribbons quaternary polarization switching |
Zusammenfassung: | © 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH. The prediction and observation of supra-binary polarization in a ferroelectric nanowire (FNW) covered with a semicylindrical gate that provides an anisotropic electric field in the FNW are reported. There are gate-voltage-driven transitions between four polarization states in the FNW's cross-section, dubbed vertical-up, vertical-down, radial-in, and radial-out. They are determined by the interplay between the spatial depolarization energy and the free energy induced by an anisotropic external electric field, in clear distinction from the conventional film-based binary ferroelectricity. When the FNW is mounted on a biased graphene nanoribbon (GNR), these transitions induce exotic current-voltage hysteresis in the FNW-GNR transistor. This discovery suggests new operating mechanisms of ferroelectric devices. In particular, it enables intrinsic quaternary-digit information manipulation in parallel to the bit manipulation employed in conventional data storage |
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Beschreibung: | Date Revised 02.07.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
ISSN: | 1521-4095 |
DOI: | 10.1002/adma.202101981 |