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Nanotube ferroelectric tunnel junctions with giant tunneling electroresistance ratio

Jiu-Long Wang·Yi-Feng Zhao·Wen Xu·Jun-Ding Zheng·Ya-Ping Shao·Wen-Yi Tong·Chun-Gang Duan
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Low-dimensional ferroelectric tunnel junctions are appealing for the realization of nanoscale nonvolatile memory devices due to their inherent advantage of device miniaturization. Those based on current mechanisms still have restrictions including low tunneling electroresistance (TER) effects and complex heterostructures. Here, we introduce an entirely new TER mechanism to construct the nanotube ferroelectric tunnel junction with ferroelectric nanotubes as the tunneling region. When rolling a ferroelectric monolayer into a nanotube, due to the coexistence of its intrinsic ferroelectric polarization with the flexoelectric polarization induced by bending, there occurs metal-insulator transition depending on radiative polarization states. For the pristine monolayer, its out-of-plane polarization is tunable by an in-plane electric field, the conducting states of the ferroelectric nanotube can thus be tuned between metallic and insulating via axial electric means. Using {\alpha}-In2Se3 as an example, our first-principles density functional theory calculations and nonequilibrium Green's function formalism confirm the feasibility of the TER mechanism and indicate an ultrahigh TER ratio exceeding 9.9*10^10% of the proposed nanotube ferroelectric tunnel junctions. Our findings provide a promising approach based on simple homogeneous structures for high density ferroelectric microelectronic devices with excellent ON/OFF performance.

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Jiu-Long Wang, Yi-Feng Zhao, Wen Xu, Jun-Ding Zheng, Ya-Ping Shao, Wen-Yi Tong, Chun-Gang Duan. 2023-07-13. Nanotube ferroelectric tunnel junctions with giant tunneling electroresistance ratio. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06515

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