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Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction Based on Asymmetric Barrier-Well-Barrier Structure: The Role of Resonant Tunneling

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume 70, Issue 5, Pages 2282-2290

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2023.3251958

Keywords

Ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ); hafnium oxide (HfO2); quantum well; resonant tunneling (RT); tunneling electroresistance (TER)

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An innovative resonant ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) with asymmetric barrier-well-barrier structure is proposed. This FTJ exhibits improved ON-current and ON/OFF tunneling electroresistance (TER) ratio while maintaining a low depolarization field. The resonance peak of FTJ can be shifted by enhancing the device asymmetry through resonant band engineering. This work is useful for designing FTJs for large array circuit applications.
An innovative resonant ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) based on asymmetric barrier-well-barrier structure is theoretically proposed. It is achieved by metal- ferroelectric-dielectric-dielectric-metal (M-F-I-1-I-2-M) stack, where a low-barrier dielectric I-1 is inserted to form a quantum well. Physical modeling of self-consistent potential and carrier transport is established to bridge the polarization reversal and resonant tunneling (RT). The resonant FTJ shows improved ON-current and ON/OFF tunneling electroresistance (TER) ratio while maintain-ing a relatively low depolarization field. Compared with FE-HfO2/SiO2 or FE-HfO2/Ta2O5 bilayer FTJs, the resonant FTJ using FE-HfO2/Ta2O5/HfO2 stack exhibits a larger TER ratio by several orders of magnitude, which can be further enhanced using FE-HfO2/Ta2O5/SiO2 stack. The underlying physics is attributed to the RT, of which contribution to TER effect is qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The resonant band engineering, through enhancing the device asymmetry, including the geometry asymmetry and the material asymmetry, is to shift the resonance peak close to or away from the Fermi energy depending on the polariza-tion direction. This work is useful for FTJ design for large array circuit applications.

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