Negative capacitance FETs with steep switching by ferroelectric Hf-based oxide

Ferroelectric HfZrOx (FE-HZO) negative capacitance (NC) FETs is experimentally demonstrated with physical thickness 1.5 nm after annealing 800°C for subthreshold swing (SS) < 60 mV/dec and hysteresis free. The relation between SS and FE-HZO thickness is also discussed. The NC-FinFET modeling is validated on standard 14nm FinFET. The feasible concept of coupling the polarization Hf-based oxide was applied, which were experimentally established with the validity of the negative capacitance effect.