Ferroelectricity in boron-substituted aluminum nitride thin films

This manuscript demonstrates ferroelectricity in B-substituted AlN thin films and a complementary set of first-principles calculations to understand their structure-property relationships. Al1-xBxN films are grown by dual-cathode reactive magnetron sputtering on (110)W/(001)Al2O3 substrates at 300°C at compositions spanning x=0 to x=0.20. X-ray diffraction studies indicate a decrease in both the c and a lattice parameters with increasing B concentration, resulting in a decrease in unit cell volume and a constant c/a axial ratio of 1.60 over this composition range. Films with 0.02≤x≤0.15 display ferroelectric switching with remanent polarizations exceeding 125μCcm-2 while maintaining band gap energies of >5.2eV. The large band gap allows low frequency hysteresis measurement (200 Hz) with modest leakage contributions. At B concentrations of x>0.15, c-axis orientation deteriorates and ferroelectric behavior is degraded. Density-functional theory calculations corroborate the structural observations and provide predictions for the wurtzite u parameter, polarization reversal magnitudes, and composition-dependent coercive fields.

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Work Title Ferroelectricity in boron-substituted aluminum nitride thin films
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  1. John Hayden
  2. Mohammad Delower Hossain
  3. Yihuang Xiong
  4. Kevin Ferri
  5. Wanlin Zhu
  6. Mario Vincenzo Imperatore
  7. Noel Giebink
  8. Susan Trolier-Mckinstry
  9. Ismaila Dabo
  10. Jon Paul Maria
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  1. Physical Review Materials
Publication Date April 1, 2021
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.044412
Deposited December 08, 2021

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