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Negative capacitance gives a positive boost

Negative capacitance effect in a ferroelectric-based gate stack provides an effective solution for hysteresis-free steep-slope  operation in a MoS2 field-effect transistor.

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Fig. 1: Negative capacitance FETs.

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Ionescu, A.M. Negative capacitance gives a positive boost. Nature Nanotech 13, 7–8 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-017-0046-2

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