• DocumentCode
    3565120
  • Title

    Can piezoelectricity lead to negative capacitance?

  • Author

    Wong, Justin C. ; Salahuddin, Sayeef

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • Abstract
    A thermodynamic model was constructed to quantitatively analyze the negative capacitance effect in the presence of piezoelectricity, electrostriction, and ferroelectricity. The model shows that pure piezoelectricity and higher-order electromechanical coupling can provide a negative capacitance effect in principle, but are not strong enough in practice. Negative capacitance is predicted to occur due to ferroelectric polarization switching and not due to piezoelectricity.
  • Keywords
    electrostriction; ferroelectric switching; piezoelectricity; thermodynamics; electrostriction; ferroelectric polarization switching; higher-order electromechanical coupling; negative capacitance effect; piezoelectricity; thermodynamic model; Capacitance; Electric fields; Electrostriction; Materials; Piezoelectricity; Strain; Thermodynamics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2014 IEEE International
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEDM.2014.7047046
  • Filename
    7047046