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Many readers have seen the populations of capacitors installed to computer motherboards and other power intensive silicon chip circuit boards. Finally, working with collaborators at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the researchers integrated the films into three-dimensional microcapacitor structures, growing the precisely layered films in deep trenches cut into silicon with aspect ratios up to 100:1. These 3D trench capacitor structures are used in today’s DRAM capacitors and can achieve much higher capacitance per unit footprint compared to planar capacitors, allowing greater miniaturization and design flexibility. At Lawrence Berkeley National Lab the researchers achieved their record-breaking microcapacitors by carefully engineering thin films of HfO2-ZrO2 to achieve a negative capacitance effect. The researchers are now working on scaling up the technology and integrating it into full-size microchips, as well as pushing the fundamental materials science forward to improve the negative capacitance of these films even more. Parts of this work were performed at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science nanoscience user facility located at Berkeley Lab. Image Credit: Nirmaan Shanker/Suraj Cheema, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Suraj Cheema, a postdoc in Salahuddin’s group and one of the lead authors of the paper explained, “That unit cell really wants to be polarized during the phase transition, which helps produce extra charge in response to an electric field.

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