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Chin. Phys. B, 2022, Vol. 31(8): 088502    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac5977
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Wake-up effect in Hf0.4Zr0.6O2 ferroelectric thin-film capacitors under a cycling electric field

Yilin Li(李屹林)1, Hui Zhu(朱慧)1,†, Rui Li(李锐)1, Jie Liu(柳杰)1, Jinjuan Xiang(项金娟)2, Na Xie(解娜)1, Zeng Huang(黄增)1, Zhixuan Fang(方志轩)1, Xing Liu(刘行)1, and Lixing Zhou(周丽星)1
1 Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100023, China;
2 Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Abstract  We examined the wake-up effect in a TiN/Hf0.4Zr0.6O2/TiN structure. The increased polarization was affected by the cumulative duration of a switched electric field and the single application time of the field during each switching cycle. The space-charge-limited current was stable, indicating that the trap density did not change during the wake-up. The effective charge density in the space-charge region was extracted from capacitance-voltage curves, which demonstrated an increase in free charges at the interface. Based on changing characteristics in these properties, the wake-up effect can be attributed to the redistribution of oxygen vacancies under the electric field.
Keywords:  wake up      HZO ferroelectric thin-film      cycling electric field      oxygen vacancy  
Received:  25 November 2021      Revised:  09 February 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  02 March 2022
PACS:  85.50.Gk (Non-volatile ferroelectric memories)  
  77.55.D (High-permittivity gate dielectric films)  
  77.55.fp (Other ferroelectric films)  
  72.10.-d (Theory of electronic transport; scattering mechanisms)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61201046) and the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing, China (Grant Nos. 4202009 and 4162013).
Corresponding Authors:  Hui Zhu     E-mail:  zhuhui@bjut.edu.cn

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Yilin Li(李屹林), Hui Zhu(朱慧), Rui Li(李锐), Jie Liu(柳杰), Jinjuan Xiang(项金娟), Na Xie(解娜), Zeng Huang(黄增), Zhixuan Fang(方志轩), Xing Liu(刘行), and Lixing Zhou(周丽星) Wake-up effect in Hf0.4Zr0.6O2 ferroelectric thin-film capacitors under a cycling electric field 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 088502

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