Patent ID: 11871583
Assignee: KEPLER COMPUTING INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. The device of claim 1, wherein the ferroelectric memory device comprises sidewalls that have a slope that is different from 90° with respect to a lowermost surface of the ferroelectric memory device, and wherein the ferroelectric memory device comprises a ferroelectric material which includes one of:
bismuth ferrite (BFO) with a first doping material wherein the first doping material is one of lanthanum or elements from lanthanide series of periodic table;
lead zirconium titanate (PZT) or PZT with a second doping material, wherein the second doping material is one of La or Nb;
a relaxor ferroelectric material which includes one of lead magnesium niobate (PMN), lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT), lead lanthanum zirconate titanate (PLZT), lead scandium niobate (PSN), barium titanium-bismuth zinc niobium tantalum (BT-BZNT), or Barium titanium-barium strontium titanium (BT-BST);
a perovskite material which includes one of: BaTiO3, PbTiO3, KNbO3, or NaTaO3;
a first hexagonal ferroelectric which includes one of: YMnO3 or LuFeO3;
a second hexagonal ferroelectric of a type h-RMnO3, where R is a rare earth element which includes one of: cerium (Ce), dysprosium (Dy), erbium (Er), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), holmium (Ho), lanthanum (La), lutetium (Lu), neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), scandium (Sc), terbium (Tb), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), or yttrium (Y);
Hafnium (Hf), Zirconium (Zr), Aluminum (Al), Silicon (Si), their oxides or their alloyed oxides; Hafnium oxides as Hf1-x Ex Oy, where E can be Al, Ca, Ce, Dy, Er, Gd, Ge, La, Sc, Si, Sr, Sn, Zr, or Y; Al(1-x)Sc(x)N, Ga(1-x)Sc(x)N, Al(1-x)Y(x)N or Al(1-x-y)Mg(x)Nb(y)N, wherein ‘x’ is a fraction;
niobate type compounds LiNbO3, LiTaO3, lithium iron tantalum oxy fluoride, barium strontium niobate, sodium barium niobate, or potassium strontium niobate; or
an improper ferroelectric material which includes one of: [PTO/STO]n or [LAO/STO]n, where ‘n’ is between 1 and 100.