Failure Analysis of FeCAPs. Electrical Behaviour Under Synchrotron X-Ray Irradiation

Autor: V. Ya. Shur, Dirk Wouters, Ivan Baturin, N. Menou, A. M. Castagnos, Ch. Muller, J. A. Johnson
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Integrated Ferroelectrics. 61:89-95
ISSN: 1607-8489
1058-4587
DOI: 10.1080/10584580490458784
Popis: This paper presents a preliminary study of the degradation and restoration of ferroelectric properties under X-ray irradiation of Pt/SBT/Pt ferroelectric capacitors (FeCAP) and the degradation in Pt/PZT/Pt FeCAPs. The results seem to point out that aging of irradiated capacitors originates from the pinning of domain walls due to trapping of photo-generated carriers at domain boundaries. For SBT FeCAPs, the recovery of a significant switchable polarisation after electrical cycling under X-ray irradiation indicates that the domain walls are probably weakly pinned. In PZT FeCAPs, the fatigue behaviour during X-ray exposure can be explained as a result of X-ray induced acceleration of the bulk screening process due to increasing of the concentration of bulk carriers, which leads to both static and kinetic imprint effects.
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