The present work reports the fabrication of a ferroelectric tunnel junction based on a CMOS compatible 2.8 nm-thick Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 tunnel barrier. It presents a comprehensive study of the electronic properties of the Pt/Hf0.5Zr0.5O2/Pt system by X-ray photoelectron and UV-Visible spectroscopies. Furthermore, two different scanning probe techniques (Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and conductive-AFM) were used to demonstrate the ferroelectric behavior of the ultrathin Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 layer as well as the typical current-voltage characteristic of a ferroelectric tunnel junction device. Finally, a direct tunneling model across symmetric barriers was used to correlate electronic and electric transport properties of the ferroelectric tunnel junction system, demonstrating a large tunnel electroresistance effect with a tunneling electroresistance effect ratio of 20.

Topics
Transport properties, Current-voltage characteristic, Tunnel junctions, Ferroelectric materials, Piezoresponse force spectroscopy, Tunneling electroresistance, UV-visible spectroscopy, Potential energy barrier, Dynamic random-access-memory
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