Synopses & Reviews
Ferroelectric memories have changed in 10 short years from academic curiosities of the university research labs to commercial devices in large-scale production. This is the first text on ferroelectric memories that is not just an edited collection of papers by different authors. Intended for applied physicists, electrical engineers, materials scientists and ceramists, it includes ferroelectric fundamentals, especially for thin films, circuit diagrams and processsing chapters, but emphazises device physics. Breakdown mechanisms, switching kinetics and leakage current mechanisms have lengthly chapters devoted to them. The book will be welcomed by research scientists in industry and government laboratories and in universities. It also contains 76 problems for students, making it particularly useful as a textbook for fourth-year undergraduate or first-year graduate students.
Synopsis
The book gives a comprehensive introduction to the field by an established expert on ferroelectric memories
Synopsis
This is the first comprehensive book on ferroelectric memories which contains chapters on device design, processing, testing, and device physics, as well as on breakdown, leakage currents, switching mechanisms, and fatigue. State-of-the-art device designs are included and illustrated among the books many figures. More than 500 up-to-date references and 76 problems make it useful as a research reference for physicists, engineers and students.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-243) and index.
Table of Contents
Fundamentals.- Random Access Memories.- Electrical Breakdown.- Leakage Currents.- C(V) Data.- Switching Kinetics.- Fatigue and Charge Injection.- Frequency Dependence.- Phase Sequences on Processing.- SBT Structure.- Processing and Deposition.- Nondestructive READ-OUT Devices.- Phased Array Radar and 1-100 GHz Devices: Ferroelectric-on-superconductors.- Pyroelectrics and Wafer Bonding.- E-emission and Flat-panel Displays.- Optical Devices.- Nanophase Devices.- Limitations and Drawbacks.- Appendix: 100 Problems for Students.