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Zhenhai Li1,2, Shuqi Tang1, Tianyu Wang3,4
1School of Microelectronics, Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Hafnium oxide (HfO2)-based devices have been extensively evaluated for high-speed and low-power memory applications. Here, the influence of aluminum (Al) and lanthanum (La) co-doping HfO2 thin films on the ferroelectric characteristics of hafnium-based devices is investigated. Among devices with different La/Al ratios, the Al and La co-doped hafnium oxide (HfAlAO) device with 4.2% Al and 2.17% La exhibited the excellent remanent polarization and thermostability. Meanwhile, first principal analyses verified that hafnium-based thin films with 4.2% Al and 2.17% La promoted the formation of the o-phase against the paraelectric phase, providing theoretical support for supporting experimental results. Furthermore, a vertical ferroelectric HfO2 memory based on 3D macaroni architecture is reported. The devices show excellent ferroelectric characteristics of 22 µC cm-2 under 4.5 MV cm-1 and minimal coercive field of ≈1.6 V. In addition, the devices exhibit great memory performance, including the response speed of device can achieve 20 ns and endurance characteristic can achieve 1010 cycles.
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