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Received 24 Nov 2015 | Accepted 24 Dec 2015 | Published 8 Feb 2016
Saidur Rahman Bakaul1, Claudy Rayan Serrao1,2, Michelle Lee3, Chun Wing Yeung1, Asis Sarker1, Shang-Lin Hsu4, Ajay Kumar Yadav2, Liv Dedon2, Long You1, Asif Islam Khan1, James David Clarkson2, Chenming Hu1, Ramamoorthy Ramesh2,3,4 & Sayeef Salahuddin1,4
Single-crystalline thin lms of complex oxides show a rich variety of functional properties such as ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, ferro and antiferromagnetism and so on that have the potential for completely new electronic applications. Direct synthesis of such oxides on silicon remains challenging because of the fundamental crystal chemistry and mechanical incompatibility of dissimilar interfaces. Here we report integration of thin (down to one unit cell) single crystalline, complex oxide lms onto silicon substrates, by epitaxial transfer at room temperature. In a eld-effect transistor using a transferred lead zirconate titanate layer as the gate insulator, we demonstrate direct reversible control of the semiconductor channel charge with polarization state. These results represent the realization of long pursued but yet to be demonstrated single-crystal functional oxides on-demand on silicon.
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Single crystal functional oxides on silicon
1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. 2 Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. 3 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. 4 Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to S.S. (email: mailto:[email protected]
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Asignicant number of single-crystalline complex oxides show ferroic order and a variety of correlated phenomena1,2. Consequently, extensive research effort is currently
ongoing in the investigation of these materials both for fundamental science and potential applications. For many of the novel functionalities, it is important to retain the single-crystal nature of these oxides when they are nally interfaced with Si electronics. In addition, it has been long postulated that integration of single-crystal functional oxides with silicon could resolve some of the most critical problems in existing applications such as the memory retention time in ferroelectric random access memory3. As a consequence, there is currently a signicant effort to integrate functional complex oxides on silicon417. However, owing to large difference in interfacial chemistry and the typically high temperatures and oxidizing environments needed for the growth of such oxides, direct epitaxial synthesis on Si continues to pose a signicant synthesis challenge610. Such integration is mostly achieved by growing an appropriate buffer layer9,1116, which then acts as a template for synthesis of subsequent layers either by epitaxy or other techniques. Synthesis of a ferroelectric without a buffer layer has also been demonstrated17. However, a common problem in all these methods comes from the electronic incompatibility of the interfaces that leads to dangling bonds and trap states. These trap states in turn dominates the electronic behaviour and decouples the functional oxides from the underlying Si channel. For example, despite the pioneering work of epitaxial growth of a ferroelectric layer on silicon without a buffer layer in ref. 17, a direct and reversible control of the Si channel charge could not be achieved.
In the following, we present a fundamental advancement in the integration of such dissimilar materials. This is achieved by epitaxial transfer of single-crystalline functional oxides directly onto Si. Because of the fact that the process can be carried out at room temperature, it avoids the interface chemistry and thermal issues described above. We demonstrate transfer of functional oxides as thin as one unit cell (4 ), which is almost three orders of magnitude thinner than any other transfer technique reported
for complex oxides. The lattice structure, surface morphology, piezoelectric coefcient, dielectric constant, polarization switching and spontaneous and remnant polarization of the transferred ferroelectric oxide are commensurate with those of the as-grown lms on lattice matched oxide substrates. Remarkably, when a transferred Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 (PZT) is used
as the gate of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistor, it shows clear control of the channel charge with ferroelectric polarization evidenced in the signature anti-clockwise hysteresis loop and an abrupt jump in the current, attesting to high-quality interface and single-crystalline nature of the transferred lm respectively. We also demonstrate transfer of single-crystalline superlattices and multiferroic heterostructures on Si that illustrate the tremendous exibility offered by the technique reported in this work.
ResultsStructural characteristics of complex oxides on silicon. For epitaxial transfer, we start by growing single crystal, 0.4100-nm thick PZT on 20 nm thick La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) coated SrTiO3
(STO) substrate by using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) (for structural properties see Supplementary Figs 1 and 2). Subsequently, the LSMO layer is wet etched. This releases the layer(s) sitting above it (Fig. 1a), which is then carried by a transfer stamp based on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and placed on the target substrate such as Si. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy reveals atomically sharp interfaces and no interfacial layer when Si surface is properly passivated (Fig. 1b, Supplementary Fig. 3a,b). Similar results are obtained when stack with multiferroic (SrRuO3/BiFeO3/CoFeB/MgO) and super-lattices (CaTiO3/SrTiO3)6 are transferred (Fig. 1c,d). Figure 2 shows the structural characteristics of transferred lms of PZT on Si. The root mean square (RMS) roughness of the transferred PZT is 0.61 nm (Fig. 2a) which is comparable to that of the as-grown lm (0.42 nm; Supplementary Fig. 1a). The bottom surface of the PZT, which was released from LSMO, shows a RMS roughness of 0.67 nm (Fig. 2b). This indicates that the surface
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on lattice-matched substrates with a thin (1020 nm) sacricial layer using pulsed laser deposition method. The stack is then immersed in a dilutedKI HCl solution, which isotropically etches La0.7Sr0.3MnO3. A polymethyl methacrylate handle is used to transfer the released ferroelectric layers onto
Si and other substrates. Transmission electron microscopy images of the transferred (b) Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3, (c) (CaTiO3/SrTiO3)6 superlattices and
(d) SrRuO3/BiFeO3/CoFeB/Pt multilayers on Si substrate. The scale bars are 5 nm in b,c and 40 nm in d.
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Figure 2 | Structural characterization of the as-grown Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 (PZT) and the transferred PZTon silicon. (a,b) Atomic force microscopy images of the top and bottom surfaces of transferred PZT. The top surface is probed when PZT is sitting on Si and the bottom surface is probed by placing
PZT/PMMA bilayer inverted on Si. The RMS roughness of top and bottom surfaces is 0.61 and 0.67 nm, respectively. These are comparable to 0.41 nm roughness of the source PZT lms top surface (Supplementary Fig. 1). Scale bar, 1 mm. (c,d) y-2y scan and rocking curve around PZT (002) reection peak of the source PZTon SrTiO3/ La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 substrate and transferred PZTon Si (001). The absence of any phase other than the 001 family of planes of Si and PZT points that the transferred PZT is single crystalline.
morphology of PZT is insensitive to the etch chemistry and removal of LSMO. The y-2y scan of the transferred lm using
X-ray diffraction (Fig. 2d) is essentially identical to the as-grown lm (Fig. 2c) and shows peaks only from the PZT (001) and Si (00 l) family planes, suggesting that the transferred PZT is a single crystal. The lattice constants for the as-grown and the transferred PZT are 4.14 and 4.15 respectively and the full width half maxima measured from the rocking curves are 0.54 and 0.53. This suggests that the overall lm quality remains intact after the transfer process. Similar behaviour is observed when PZT is transferred on other surfaces such as 5-nm amorphous Al2O3
coated Si, thermally grown amorphous SiO2 coated Si, sputter deposited amorphous Au coated Si, single-crystal oxide substrates such as LSMO on STO and so on (Supplementary Figs 3 and 4).
Switching in single crystal Pb0.2Zr0.8TiO3 on silicon. Next we
studied the electromechanical properties of the transferred PZT using the piezoelectric force microscopy. As shown in Fig. 3a, the ferroelectric domains of the transferred PZT on Si could be
reversibly poled by applying oppositely directed electric elds from the piezoelectric force microscopy tip. The domains, thus, obtained retained their respective polarization states even after 24 h. Figure 3b shows the d33-V loop for the transferred PZT on
Si. The d33 amplitude is similar to that obtained in the as-grown lm (Supplementary Fig. 5).
Electronic transport properties of Pb0.2Zr0.8TiO3 on silicon.
To understand the quality and applicability of the transferred PZT for electronic applications, we explore the polarization (P)-eld (E) and capacitance (C)-E characteristics. Figure 3c,d shows the results for the case where an epitaxial tri-layer SrRuO3(SRO)/PZT/SRO heterostructure on LSMO buffered STO substrate was grown and subsequently transferred onto a Si substrate. The saturation polarization (B75 mC cm 2) and the peak capacitance (B1.6 mC cm 2) are similar to a typical as-grown lm. The hysteresis is symmetric with the V 0 point
because of a symmetric boundary condition on top and bottom for the PZT lm18. Importantly, the results in Fig. 3c,d and Supplementary Fig. 6 demonstrate that the transfer method works
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Figure 4 | Single-crystal Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 (PZT) gated silicon channel transistor. (a) Frequency-dependent capacitance of Si/SiO2 and Si/SiO2/ transferred Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3. The capacitor size is 22 22 mm2. (b) Cross-sectional schematic diagram of the fabricated transistor on SOI substrate.
The length, L, and width, W, of the silicon channel region are 5 and 10 mm, respectively, whereas gate electrode length is 20 mm. (c) ID VG (top gate)
characteristics of the ferroelectric PZT-gated transistor at VG (back gate) 0. The counter-clockwise hysteresis and two order of abrupt current
change in the ID VG characteristics demonstrates the control of the channel charge by the polarization of the transferred PZT layer.
equally well for multiple layers and therefore any arbitrary heterostructure can be transferred in this way. Monitoring the voltage across the ferroelectric after application of a pulsed voltage shows a transient decrease with time, characteristic of the intrinsic polarization switching1921 (see Supplementary Fig. 7 for details).
Single-crystal Pb0.2Zr0.8TiO3-gated Si transistor. To check the electronic quality of the interface, we demonstrate a functional Si eld-effect transistor with a transferred PZT layer as the gate oxide. We exploit one of the major strengths of the transfer process, namely, a single-crystalline ferroelectric can be transferred onto any arbitrary surface, such as Si/SiO2 (3 nm) surface.
The Si/SiO2 interface ensures excellent surface for the channel and at the same time provides a large band-offset with the channel that stops hot electrons from easily tunnelling into the ferroelectric atop it. The PZT is then transferred onto the channel to form the gate. Figure 4a shows the normalized, frequency-
dependent capacitance of a Si/SiO2 capacitor with and without the transferred PZT on top. The dispersion is identical for both, indicating that the transfer of PZT does not degrade the quality of the interface. The impedance angle is close to 90 for both capacitors over the entire frequency range. Similar behaviour is seen for Si/Al2O3 interfaces (Supplementary Figs 8 and 9).
Figure 4b,c show the schematic representation of the fabricated transistor (optical image is shown in Supplementary Fig. 10) and the ID VG characteristics. There are two important points about
the ID VG characteristic. Firstly, the ID VG shows counter
clockwise hysteresis for the n-type transistor which is a characteristic signature of the ferroelectric control of the charge. Secondly, the abrupt jump in the current indicates that the ferroelectric PZT switches abruptly as expected in a single-crystalline structure. The handedness of the hysteresis and the abruptness in the current together demonstrate the successful integration of a functional, single-crystalline oxide onto a Si device, a goal that has been long pursued but has so far been
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elusive17. All of the ID VG loops are repeatable (Supplementary
Figs 11 and 12).
DiscussionOur work is a fundamental advancement over prior transfer methods that have been explored before for ferroelectrics (such as the smart-cut techniques where only microns thick lms have been transferred and a typical surface RMS roughness of 1170 nm is observed2225 due to ion damage. By contrast, we have integrated lms with thickness much smaller than this roughness ranges down to a single unit cell. The generality of our approach paves the way to integrate complex oxides on not only Si but also other semiconductors such as GaN where the polarization of a single-crystalline ferroelectric could be used to counteract the built-in polarization. Epitaxially transferred semiconductors is a commercial technology26. This indicates that the reported technique should be scalable to commercially relevant sizes, thereby enabling many novel applications in electronics and multiferroic spintronics2631.
Methods
SOI transistor with FE gate. We start with SOI wafer with a highly doped Si handle, a SiO2 box and a p-type Si with a thickness ofB100 nm as the active region. The Si handle is used as a back gate. First a mesa was dened and the source and drain regions were patterned giving a channel length of 5 mm and width of 10 mm.
After that the source and drain regions were doped n . Next, the Si mesa was covered by a 3 nm thick, thermally grown SiO2 layer. This provides excellent interface with the Si. Then a PZT ake was transferred onto the channel region. Finally the top gate was patterned (see also Supplementary Note 8).
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by the ONR, ARO YIP award, the AFOSR YIP award, the STARNET LEAST Center, the NSF E3S Center and the IRICE Program at Berkeley. We acknowledge discussion with Dr Guneeta Singh Bhalla who rst brought our attention to wet etching of manganite lms. All additional data are available in the supplementary materials.
Author contributions
S.R.B. and S.S. designed the experiments. S.R.B. performed epitaxial transfer and electronic transport measurement. S.R.B. and C.W.Y. fabricated the transistor. C.R.S., S.R.B., A.Y., L.D., L.Y., M.L. and J.D.C. deposited the materials. S.R.B., C.R.S., A.I.K. and S.H. measured electromechanical and structural characteristics. S.R.B., S.S. and R.R. wrote the manuscript. All authors helped by providing suggestions.
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Single-crystalline thin films of complex oxides show a rich variety of functional properties such as ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, ferro and antiferromagnetism and so on that have the potential for completely new electronic applications. Direct synthesis of such oxides on silicon remains challenging because of the fundamental crystal chemistry and mechanical incompatibility of dissimilar interfaces. Here we report integration of thin (down to one unit cell) single crystalline, complex oxide films onto silicon substrates, by epitaxial transfer at room temperature. In a field-effect transistor using a transferred lead zirconate titanate layer as the gate insulator, we demonstrate direct reversible control of the semiconductor channel charge with polarization state. These results represent the realization of long pursued but yet to be demonstrated single-crystal functional oxides on-demand on silicon.
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