Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Single crystal functional oxides on silicon

  • Saidur Rahman Bakaul,
  • Claudy Rayan Serrao,
  • Michelle Lee,
  • Chun Wing Yeung,
  • Asis Sarker,
  • Shang-Lin Hsu,
  • Ajay Kumar Yadav,
  • Liv Dedon,
  • Long You,
  • Asif Islam Khan,
  • James David Clarkson,
  • Chenming Hu,
  • Ramamoorthy Ramesh,
  • Sayeef Salahuddin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10547
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Synthesis of single-crystal complex-oxide films directly on silicon is difficult due to differing interfacial chemistry. Here, the authors demonstrate room-temperature integration of single-crystal lead zirconate titanate on to silicon to act as a gate insulator in a field-effect transistor.