Influence of image forces on the electron transport in ferroelectric tunnel junctions
arXiv:1704.02055 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.134106
Abstract
We study influence of image forces on conductance of ferroelectric tunnel junctions. We show that the influence of image forces is twofold: i) they enhance the electro-resistance effect due to polarization hysteresis in symmetric tunnel junctions at non-zero bias and ii) they produce the electro-resistance effect due to hysteresis of dielectric permittivity of ferroelectric barrier. We study dependence of ferroelectric tunnel junction conductance on temperature and show that image forces lead to strong conductance variation with temperature.
11 pages, 8 figures
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