Effects of Residual Stress on the Ferroelectric Properties of Al0.8Sc0.2N Films Sandwiched Between Pt or W Electrodes

IF 2.9 2区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI:10.1109/TED.2025.3545391

Xiaoxi Li;Yuan Fang;Bochang Li;Jiuren Zhou;Zhifan Wu;Cizhe Fang;Xiangyu Zeng;Siying Zheng;Yue Hao;Yan Liu;Genquan Han

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Abstract

In this work, the impacts of the residual stress on the structural and ferroelectric properties of Al0.8Sc0.2N films clamped with different metal electrodes (Pt and W) were investigated. The Pt/Al

$_{\mathbf {0.8}}$

Sc0.2N/Pt capacitors exhibited enhanced ferroelectric performance, with coercive fields (

${E} _{\text {c}}$

) reduced by 0.2 MV/cm, leakage currents reduced by one order of magnitude and stable polarization switching across frequencies. These improvements are attributed to better crystallographic orientation and larger grain sizes driven by tensile stress. In contrast, W/Al0.8Sc0.2N/W capacitors showed larger leakage currents, higher

${E} _{\text {c}}$

, and a greater susceptibility to breakdown. Moreover, the W samples showed diminished retention characteristics, with a 50% loss in nonswitched polarization at

$10^{{4}}$

s compared to the Pt counterparts. These issues were related to the compressive stress between W and Al0.8Sc0.2N, resulting in more defects that impeded polarization switching. The findings suggest that the engineering of stress through electrode selection is essential for optimizing the performance of AlScN-based ferroelectric devices.

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IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

5.80

自引率

16.10%

发文量

937

审稿时长

3.8 months

期刊介绍： IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors. Tutorial and review papers on these subjects are also published and occasional special issues appear to present a collection of papers which treat particular areas in more depth and breadth.