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Main Authors: Li, Xianglong, Xu, Zengxu, Hu, Songbai, Gu, Mingqiang, Zhu, Yuanmin, Liu, Qi, Yang, Yihao, Ye, Mao, Chen, Lang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06216
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  • Ferroelectric fluorite dioxides like hafnium (HfO2)-based materials are considered to be one of the most potential candidates for nowadays large-scale integrated-circuits (ICs). While zirconia (ZrO2)-based fluorites materials, which has the same structure as HfO2 and more abundant resources and lower cost of raw materials, is usually thought to be anti- or ferroelectric-like. Here we reported a giant ferroelectric remnant polarization (Pr) amounted to 53 μC/cm2 in orthorhombic ZrO2 thin film at room temperature. This ferroelectricity arises from an electric field induced anti-ferroelectric to ferroelectric phase transition which is particularly noticeable at 77 K. Our work reveals the intrinsic ferroelectricity in ZrO2 thin films and offers a new pathway to understand the ferroelectricity origin in fluorite oxides.