Authors: Sebastian Calderon, John Hayden, Steven M. Baksa, William Tzou, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Ismaila Dabo, Jon-Paul Maria, Elizabeth C. Dickey
Published: 2023-06-08
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Ferroelectric wurtzites have the potential to revolutionize modern microelectronics because they are easily integrated with multiple mainstream semiconductor platforms. However, the electric fields required to reverse their polarization direction and unlock electronic and optical functions need substantial reduction for operational compatibility with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics. To understand this process, we observed and quantified real-time polarization switching of a representative ferroelectric wurtzite (Al