Ferroelectric functionality in SrTiO3/Si heterojunctions

By the first-principles calculations, various SrTiO3/Si interface architectures have been studied in this work and the computed results showed that the stable ferroelectricity can be realized in the SrTiO3/Si system. The Si/SrO interface architecture with the Si-O configuration showed predominately the ferroelectric nature and the height of the potential barrier between the negative and positive poled states (0.77 eV per interfacial unit cell). The presence of the covalent bond between the substrate Si and O of SrO layer adjacent to the substrate Si leads to the disappearance of the electronic dipoles at the interface, and the reason is that the Si-O configuration of the Si/SrO interface architecture exhibits ferroelectric nature. In order to further understand the influence of the interfacial bonding nature on the ferroelectricity of the oxide layer, the BaTiO3/Si heterojunction with the same interface architectures also have been studied. Indeed, the Si/BaO interface architecture with the Si-O configura...

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