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6 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Compositional gradient engineering for enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin AlScN

Zekun Hu, Haiwen Zhang, Rajeev Kumar Rai +12

Ferroelectric AlScN is promising for CMOS-compatible non-volatile memory, but thickness scaling is limited by leakage, premature breakdown, and defect-mediated failure. Here we sho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Evolution of electronic and magnetic properties in Mn- and Co-alloyed ferromagnetic kagome metal Fe3Sn2

Prajwal M. Laxmeesha, Rajesh Dutta, Rajeev Kumar Rai +14

Kagome metals are an intriguing class of quantum materials as the presence of both flat bands and Dirac points provides access to functional properties present in strongly correlat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Low-Field Ferroelectricity in 10 nm AlBScN Thin Films

Xiaolei Tong, Pedram Yousefian, Ziyi Wang +5

Ferroelectric aluminum scandium nitride (Al1-xScxN, AlScN) offers CMOS-compatible integration but suffers from high coercive fields and leakage currents that hinder thickness scali…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Coercive Field Reduction in Ultra-thin Al1-XScXN via Interfacial Engineering with a Scandium Electrode

Yinuo Zhang, Rajeev Kumar Rai, Giovanni Esteves +4

Aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) ferroelectrics are promising for next-generation non-volatile memory applications due to high remnant polarization compared with Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 an…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Demonstration of highly scaled AlScN ferroelectric diode memory with storage density > 100 Mbit/mm

Zekun Hu, Hyunmin Cho, Rajeev Kumar Rai +13

Wurtzite nitride ferroelectric materials have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation memory applications due to their exceptional polarization properties and compatibi…

physics.app-ph2025

Low-voltage Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors with Ultrathin Aluminum Scandium Nitride and 2D channels

Chloe Leblanc, Hyunmin Cho, Yinuo Zhang +7

The continued evolution of CMOS technology demands materials and architectures that emphasize low power consumption, particularly for computations involving large scale data proces…