Publications de Matteo Cavalieri

Ferroelectric Junctionless Double-Gate Silicon-On-Insulator FET as a Tripartite Synapse

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

In this work, we report the concept and experimentally demonstrate the first tunable ferroelectric (Fe) junctionless (JL) transistor (Fe-JLFET), capable of emulating the functionality of biological tri-partite synapses, which is an artificial three-termina ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Negative Capacitance in HfO2 Gate Stack Structures With and Without Metal Interlayer

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Francesco Bellando, Matteo Cavalieri, Eamon Patrick O'Connor, Carlotta Gastaldi

In this work, we experimentally explore and compare FET gate stacks with and without an inner metal plane between a linear dielectric (SiO2) and a ferroelectric layer (Si-doped HfO2) operating in the negative capacitance (NC) regime. The use of nanosecond- ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Eamon Patrick O'Connor, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Exploring ferroelectricity in HfO2-based thin films by tackling application-relevant challenges

Matteo Cavalieri

Ferroelectric materials offer a broad range of application-relevant properties, including spontaneous polarization switchable by electric field. Archetypical representatives of this class of materials are perovskites, currently used in applications ranging ...

EPFL2021

Gate energy efficiency and negative capacitance in ferroelectric 2D/2D TFET from cryogenic to high temperatures

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Luca Capua, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

We report the fabrication process and performance characterization of a fully integrated ferroelectric gate stack in a WSe2/SnSe2 Tunnel FETs (TFETs). The energy behavior of the gate stack during charging and discharging, together with the energy loss of a ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Intrinsic or nucleation-driven switching: An insight from nanoscopic analysis of negative capacitance Hf1-xZrxO2-based structures

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi

HfO2-based ferroelectrics have dramatically changed the application perspectives of polarization-switching materials for information processing and storage. Their CMOS compatibility and preservation of high reversible polarization down to a few nanometer t ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Nanowire Tunnel FET with Simultaneously Reduced Subthermionic Subthreshold Swing and Off-Current due to Negative Capacitance and Voltage Pinning Effects

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri

Nanowire tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) have been proposed as the most advanced one-dimensional (1D) devices that break the thermionic 60 mV/decade of the subthreshold swing (SS) of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) by u ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

WSe2/SnSe2 vdW heterojunction Tunnel FET with subthermionic characteristic and MOSFET co-integrated on same WSe2 flake

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Nicolò Oliva, Matteo Cavalieri, Luca Capua

Two-dimensional/two-dimensional (2D/2D) heterojunctions form one of the most versatile technological solutions for building tunneling field effect transistors because of the sharp and potentially clean interfaces resulting from van der Waals assembly. Seve ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Experimental Investigation of Pulsed Laser Deposition of Ferroelectric Gd:HfO2 in a CMOS BEOL Compatible Process

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Eamon Patrick O'Connor, Carlotta Gastaldi

In this work, we report an experimental investigation of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of thin Gd:HfO2 layers at 330 degrees C, which show ferroelectric behavior after annealing at 450 degrees C, compatible with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor back ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

An Experimental Study on Mixed-Dimensional 1D-2D van der Waals Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-WSe2 Hetero-Junction

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi, Nicolò Oliva, Benjamin Paul Johanès Gabriel Lambert, Matteo Cavalieri, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Amin Rassekh

This experimental study investigates a novel multi-functional one dimensional-two dimensional (1D-2D) heterojunction made of two different band-gap semiconductors, i.e. single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) and tungsten di-selenide (WSe2). The proposed ult ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Radio-Frequency Characteristics of Ge-doped Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films with Increased Transition Temperature

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Teodor Rosca, Anna Krammer, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Matteo Cavalieri, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi, Andrei Müller

This work investigates and reports on the radio-frequency (RF) behavior in the frequency range of 5 – 35 GHz of germanium-doped (Ge-doped VO2) vanadium dioxide thin films, deposited on silicon substrates via sputtering and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) wit ...

2020

Temperature dependence of reconfigurable bandstop filters using vanadium dioxide switches

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

In this Letter, we report and investigate the temperature dependency of various radio frequency (RF) parameters for a fabricated reconfigurable bandstop filter with vanadium dioxide (VO2) switches measured up to 55 GHz. Here, the insulator-to-metal (ITM) a ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020

Co-integrated Subthermionic 2D/2D WSe2/SnSe2 Vertical Tunnel FET and WSe2 MOSFET on same flake: towards a 2D/2D vdW Dual-Transport Steep Slope FET

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Nicolò Oliva, Matteo Cavalieri, Luca Capua

In this work we report the fabrication, co-integration and resulting performance of 2D/2D van der Waals (vdW) Vertical p-type Tunnel FETs and p-MOSFETs in a WSe2/SnSe2 material system. We demonstrate the best ever reported combined performance in terms of ...

IEEE2019

Origin of Ferroelectric Phase in Undoped HfO2 Films Deposited by Sputtering

Igor Stolichnov, Matteo Cavalieri

Thin film metal-insulator-metal capacitors with undoped HfO2 as the insulator are fabricated by sputtering from ceramic targets and subsequently annealed. The influence of film thickness and annealing temperature is characterized by electrical and structur ...

WILEY2019

Transient Negative Capacitance of Silicon-doped HfO2 in MFMIS and MFIS structures: experimental insights for hysteresis-free steep slope NC FETs

Paul Muralt, Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi

In this paper, we experimentally explore the transient negative capacitance effect in ferroelectric high-k gate stacks using multi-ferroelectric domain Si-doped HfO2 with and without the metal plane, MFMIS (TiN/Si:HfO2/TiN/SiO2) and MFIS (TiN/Si:HfO2/SiO2) ...

IEEE2019

3D Smith charts scattering parameters frequency-dependent orientation analysis and complex-scalar multi-parameter characterization applied to Peano reconfigurable vanadium dioxide inductors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Junrui Zhang, Anna Krammer, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

Recently, the field of Metal-Insulator-Transition (MIT) materials has emerged as an unconventional solution for novel energy efficient electronic functions, such as steep slope subthermionic switches, neuromorphic hardware, reconfigurable radiofrequency fu ...

Nature Research2019

Hysteresis Dynamics in Double-Gated n-Type WSe2 FETs With High-k Top Gate Dielectric

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Nicolò Oliva, Matteo Cavalieri

2019

Genuinely Ferroelectric Sub-1-Volt-Switchable Nanodomains in HfxZr(1-x)O2 Ultrathin Capacitors

Enrico Colla, Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri

The new class of fully silicon-compatible hafnia-based ferroelectrics with high switchable polarization and good endurance and thickness scalability shows a strong promise for new generations of logic and memory devices. Among other factors, their competit ...

2018

Tunable RF phase shifters based on Vanadium Dioxide metal insulator transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Josef Andreas Schuler, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Nicolò Oliva, Anna Krammer, Alessandro Fumarola, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

2018

A Reconfigurable Inductor Based on Vanadium Dioxide Insulator-to-Metal Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Alessandro Fumarola, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

This letter introduces a reconfigurable planar square-coil-shaped inductor exploiting as the tuning mechanism the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) of a vanadium dioxide (VO2) switch placed in the interwinding space in an unprecedented manner. The VO2 th ...

2018