Memory devices with high speed and high density are highly desired to address the 'memory wall' issue. Here we demonstrated a highly scalable, three-dimensional stackable ferroelectric diode, with its rectifying polarity modulated by the polarization reversal of Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 films. By visualizing the hafnium/zirconium lattice order and oxygen lattice order with atomicresolution spherical aberration-corrected STEM, we revealed the correlation between the spontaneous polarization of Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 film and the displacement of oxygen atom, thus unambiguously identified the non-centrosymmetric Pca2 1 orthorhombic phase in Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 film. We further implemented this ferroelectric diode in an 8 layers 3D array. Operation speed as high as 20 ns and robust endurance of more than 10 9 were demonstrated. The builtin nonlinearity of more than 100 guarantees its self-selective property that eliminates the need for external selectors to suppress the leakage current in large array. This work opens up new opportunities for future memory hierarchy evolution.
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