Piezoelectricity in hafnia

Sangita Dutta; Pratyush Buragohain; Sebastjan Glinsek; Claudia Richter; Hugo Aramberri; Haidong Lu; Uwe Schroeder; Emmanuel Defay; Alexei Gruverman; Jorge Íñiguez

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27480-5

Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Piezoelectricity in hafnia

Sangita Dutta,
Pratyush Buragohain,
Sebastjan Glinsek,
Claudia Richter,
Hugo Aramberri,
Haidong Lu,
Uwe Schroeder,
Emmanuel Defay,
Alexei Gruverman,
Jorge Íñiguez

Affiliations

Sangita Dutta: Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Pratyush Buragohain: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sebastjan Glinsek: Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Claudia Richter: NaMLab gGmbH
Hugo Aramberri: Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Haidong Lu: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Uwe Schroeder: NaMLab gGmbH
Emmanuel Defay: Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Alexei Gruverman: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jorge Íñiguez: Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27480-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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HfO2 is a promising ferroelectric material for applications in electronics but knowledge on its ferroic and electromechanical response properties is still lacking. Here, the authors demonstrate the peculiar piezoresponse of HfO2, predicting on how to reverse its sign by means of a biaxial strain.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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