Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Antiferroelectric negative capacitance from a structural phase transition in zirconia

  • Michael Hoffmann,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Nujhat Tasneem,
  • Ahmad Zubair,
  • Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran,
  • Mengkun Tian,
  • Anthony Arthur Gaskell,
  • Dina Triyoso,
  • Steven Consiglio,
  • Kandabara Tapily,
  • Robert Clark,
  • Jae Hur,
  • Sai Surya Kiran Pentapati,
  • Sung Kyu Lim,
  • Milan Dopita,
  • Shimeng Yu,
  • Winston Chern,
  • Josh Kacher,
  • Sebastian E. Reyes-Lillo,
  • Dimitri Antoniadis,
  • Jayakanth Ravichandran,
  • Stefan Slesazeck,
  • Thomas Mikolajick,
  • Asif Islam Khan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28860-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Applying an electric field to an antiferroelectric material transforms its non-polar crystal structure into a polar one. Here, the authors show that the antiferroelectric transition in zirconia causes a negative capacitance, useful for electronics.