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Coupled Field-Gated Nucleation and Autocatalytic Growth in Ferroelectric Switching

  • Leon Sandler1
  1. 1Independent Researcher
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Abstract

Polarization switching in fluorite (HfO2, Hf0.5Zr0.5O2) and wurtzite (AlScN) ferroelectrics is dispersive: nominally identical devices and domains switch over a spread of time rather than at a single threshold. The nucleation-limited-switching (NLS) model treats this phenomenon as a Lorentzian-in-log-time distribution of nucleation waiting times; Kolmogorov–Avrami–Ishibashi (KAI) theory instead treats switching as deterministic nucleation-and-growth. Recent AlScN transport studies report devices moving between these regimes in terms of defect density, thickness, or cycling, motivating a model in which nucleation and growth are explicit, coupled, field-dependent processes.

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@misc{sandler2026coupled,
  title = {{Coupled Field-Gated Nucleation and Autocatalytic Growth in Ferroelectric Switching}},
  author = {Leon Sandler},
  howpublished = {ChemRxiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.26434/chemrxiv.15009616/v1},
  url = {https://chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26434/chemrxiv.15009616/v1},
  note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Coupled Field-Gated Nucleation and Autocatalytic Growth in Ferroelectric Switching
AU  - Leon Sandler
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/29
PB  - ChemRxiv
DO  - 10.26434/chemrxiv.15009616/v1
UR  - https://chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26434/chemrxiv.15009616/v1
AB  - Polarization switching in fluorite (HfO2, Hf0.5Zr0.5O2) and wurtzite (AlScN) ferroelectrics is dispersive: nominally identical devices and domains switch over a spread of time rather than at a single threshold. The nucleation-limited-switching (NLS) model treats this phenomenon as a Lorentzian-in-log-time distribution of nucleation waiting times; Kolmogorov–Avrami–Ishibashi (KAI) theory instead treats switching as deterministic nucleation-and-growth. Recent AlScN transport studies report devices moving between these regimes in terms of defect density, thickness, or cycling, motivating a model in which nucleation and growth are explicit, coupled, field-dependent processes.
ER  -