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most citedInvestigating charge trapping in ferroelectric thin films through transient measurements

48 citations · 111 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Peak splitting and bias fields in ferroelectric hafnia mediated by interface charge effects

Moritz Engl, Wassim Hamouda, Ines Häusler +5

The pristine state of hafnium based ferroelectric devices exhibits various unwanted properties, such as imprint and peak splitting, which diminish with bipolar cycling. The incorpo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Weight update in ferroelectric memristors with identical and non-identical pulses

Suzanne Lancaster, Maximilien Remillieux, Moritz Engl +5

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) are a class of memristor which promise low-power, scalable, field-driven analog operation. In order to harness their full potential, operation…

physics.app-ph2023★ 12 cited

A multi-pulse wakeup scheme for on-chip operation of devices based on ferroelectric doped HfO2 thin films

Suzanne Lancaster, Thomas Mikolajick, Stefan Slesazeck

A wakeup scheme for ferroelectric thin HfZrO films is presented, based on a gradual switching approach using multiple short pulses with a voltage amplitude roug…

cs.ET2022★ 9 cited

A Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction-based Integrate-and-Fire Neuron

Paolo Gibertini, Luca Fehlings, Suzanne Lancaster +6

Event-based neuromorphic systems provide a low-power solution by using artificial neurons and synapses to process data asynchronously in the form of spikes. Ferroelectric Tunnel Ju…

physics.app-ph2022★ 10 cited

Improvement of FTJ on-current by work function engineering for massive parallel neuromorphic computing

Suzanne Lancaster, Quang T. Duong, Erika Covi +2

HfO2-based ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) exhibit attractive properties for adoption in neuromorphic applications. The combination of ultra-low-power multi-level switching c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Optimizing nucleation layers for the integration of ferroelectric HZO on CVD-grown graphene

Suzanne Lancaster, Iciar Arnay, Ruben Guerrero +4

Direct integration of ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 (HZO) on the inert surface of graphene is challenging. Here, using nucleation layers to promote atomic layer deposition of HZO was…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 48 cited

Investigating charge trapping in ferroelectric thin films through transient measurements

Suzanne Lancaster, Patrick D Lomenzo, Moritz Engl +4

A measurement technique is presented to quantify the polarization loss in ferroelectric thin films as a function of delay time during the first 100s after switching. This technique…

cs.ET2022★ 2 cited

A 120dB Programmable-Range On-Chip Pulse Generator for Characterizing Ferroelectric Devices

Shyam Narayanan, Erika Covi, Viktor Havel +7

Novel non-volatile memory devices based on ferroelectric thin films represent a promising emerging technology that is ideally suited for neuromorphic applications. The physical swi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 13 cited

Towards Non-Volatile Spin Orbit Devices: Deposition of Ferroelectric Hafnia on Monolayer Graphene/Co/HM Stacks

Suzanne Lancaster, Iciar Arnay, Ruben Guerrero +10

Although technologically challenging, the integration of ferroelectric thin films with graphene spintronics potentially allows the realization of highly efficient, electrically tun…

cs.ET2021★ 16 cited

Ferroelectric Tunneling Junctions for Edge Computing

Erika Covi, Quang T. Duong, Suzanne Lancaster +10

Ferroelectric tunneling junctions (FTJ) are considered to be the intrinsically most energy efficient memristors. In this work, specific electrical features of ferroelectric hafnium…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 1 cited

Suppression of axial growth by boron incorporation in GaAs nanowires grown by self-catalyzed molecular beam epitaxy

Suzanne Lancaster, Heiko Groiss, Tobias Zederbauer +5

The addition of boron to GaAs nanowires grown by self-catalyzed molecular beam epitaxy was found to have a strong effect on the nanowire morphology, with axial growth greatly reduc…