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Antiferroelectric negative capacitance from a structural phase transition in zirconia

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  • Michael Hoffmann

    (NaMLab gGmbH
    University of California)

  • Zheng Wang

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Nujhat Tasneem

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Ahmad Zubair

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Mengkun Tian

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Anthony Arthur Gaskell

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Dina Triyoso

    (TEL Technology Center, America, LLC)

  • Steven Consiglio

    (TEL Technology Center, America, LLC)

  • Kandabara Tapily

    (TEL Technology Center, America, LLC)

  • Robert Clark

    (TEL Technology Center, America, LLC)

  • Jae Hur

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Sai Surya Kiran Pentapati

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Sung Kyu Lim

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Milan Dopita

    (Charles University)

  • Shimeng Yu

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Winston Chern

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Izentis LLC)

  • Josh Kacher

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  • Sebastian E. Reyes-Lillo

    (Universidad Andres Bello)

  • Dimitri Antoniadis

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Jayakanth Ravichandran

    (University of Southern California)

  • Stefan Slesazeck

    (NaMLab gGmbH)

  • Thomas Mikolajick

    (NaMLab gGmbH
    TU Dresden)

  • Asif Islam Khan

    (Georgia Institute of Technology
    Georgia Institute of Technology)

Abstract

Crystalline materials with broken inversion symmetry can exhibit a spontaneous electric polarization, which originates from a microscopic electric dipole moment. Long-range polar or anti-polar order of such permanent dipoles gives rise to ferroelectricity or antiferroelectricity, respectively. However, the recently discovered antiferroelectrics of fluorite structure (HfO2 and ZrO2) are different: A non-polar phase transforms into a polar phase by spontaneous inversion symmetry breaking upon the application of an electric field. Here, we show that this structural transition in antiferroelectric ZrO2 gives rise to a negative capacitance, which is promising for overcoming the fundamental limits of energy efficiency in electronics. Our findings provide insight into the thermodynamically forbidden region of the antiferroelectric transition in ZrO2 and extend the concept of negative capacitance beyond ferroelectricity. This shows that negative capacitance is a more general phenomenon than previously thought and can be expected in a much broader range of materials exhibiting structural phase transitions.

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  • Michael Hoffmann & Zheng Wang & Nujhat Tasneem & Ahmad Zubair & Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran & Mengkun Tian & Anthony Arthur Gaskell & Dina Triyoso & Steven Consiglio & Kandabara Tapily & Robert Clar, 2022. "Antiferroelectric negative capacitance from a structural phase transition in zirconia," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-28860-1
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28860-1
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