A Gate Programmable van der Waals Metal-Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Vertical Heterojunction Memory
Author(s): Li, WY (Li, Wanying); Guo, YM (Guo, Yimeng); Luo, ZP (Luo, Zhaoping); Wu, SH (Wu, Shuhao); Han, B (Han, Bo); Hu, WJ (Hu, Weijin); You, L (You, Lu); Watanabe, K (Watanabe, Kenji); Taniguchi, T (Taniguchi, Takashi); Alava, T (Alava, Thomas); Chen, JZ (Chen, Jiezhi); Gao, P (Gao, Peng); Li, XY (Li, Xiuyan); Wei, ZM (Wei, Zhongming); Wang, LW (Wang, Lin-Wang); Liu, YY (Liu, Yue-Yang); Zhao, CX (Zhao, Chengxin); Zhan, XP (Zhan, Xuepeng); Han, ZV (Han, Zheng Vitto); Wang, HW (Wang, Hanwen)
Source: ADVANCED MATERIALS DOI: 10.1002/adma.202208266 Early Access Date: DEC 2022
Abstract: Ferroelectricity, one of the keys to realize non-volatile memories owing to the remanent electric polarization, is an emerging phenomenon in the 2D limit. Yet the demonstrations of van der Waals (vdW) memories using 2D ferroelectric materials as an ingredient are very limited. Especially, gate-tunable ferroelectric vdW memristive device, which holds promises in future multi-bit data storage applications, remains challenging. Here, a gate-programmable multi-state memory is shown by vertically assembling graphite, CuInP2S6, and MoS2 layers into a metal(M)-ferroelectric(FE)-semiconductor(S) architecture. The resulted devices seamlessly integrate the functionality of both FE-memristor (with ON-OFF ratios exceeding 10(5) and long-term retention) and metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOS-FET). Thus, it yields a prototype of gate tunable giant electroresistance with multi-levelled ON-states in the FE-memristor in the vertical vdW assembly. First-principles calculations further reveal that such behaviors originate from the specific band alignment between the FE-S interface. Our findings pave the way for the engineering of ferroelectricity-mediated memories in future implementations of 2D nanoelectronics.
Accession Number: WOS:000899651700001
PubMed ID: 36398430
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Author Web of Science ResearcherID ORCID Number
Luo, Zhaoping 0000-0002-2181-5431
ISSN: 0935-9648
eISSN: 1521-4095
Full Text: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202208266