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Experimental study of gradual/abrupt dynamics of HfO2-based 1 memristive devices

Experimental study of gradual/abrupt dynamics of HfO2-based 1 memristive devices
Experimental study of gradual/abrupt dynamics of HfO2-based 1 memristive devices
The resistance switching dynamics of TiN/HfO2/Pt devices is analyzed in this paper. When biased with a voltage ramp of appropriate polarity, the devices experience SET transitions from high to low resistance states in an abrupt manner, which allows identifying a threshold voltage. However, we find that the stimulation with trains of identical pulses at voltages near the threshold results in a gradual SET transition, whereby the resistive state visits a continuum of intermediate levels as it approaches some low resistance state limit. On the contrary, RESET transitions from low to high resistance states proceed in a gradual way under voltage ramp stimulation, while gradual resistance changes driven by trains of identical spikes cover only a limited resistance window. The results are discussed in terms of the relations among the thermo-electrochemical effects of Joule heating, ion mobility, and resistance change, which provide positive and negative closed loop processes in SET and RESET, respectively. Furthermore, the effect of the competition between opposite tendencies of filament dissolution and formation at opposite metal/HfO2 interfaces is discussed as an additional ingredient affecting the switching dynamics.
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Brivio, S., Covi, E., Serb, A., Prodromakis, T., Fanciulli, M. and Spiga, S. (2016) Experimental study of gradual/abrupt dynamics of HfO2-based 1 memristive devices. Applied Physics Letters, 109 (13), 1-5. (doi:10.1063/1.4963675).

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The resistance switching dynamics of TiN/HfO2/Pt devices is analyzed in this paper. When biased with a voltage ramp of appropriate polarity, the devices experience SET transitions from high to low resistance states in an abrupt manner, which allows identifying a threshold voltage. However, we find that the stimulation with trains of identical pulses at voltages near the threshold results in a gradual SET transition, whereby the resistive state visits a continuum of intermediate levels as it approaches some low resistance state limit. On the contrary, RESET transitions from low to high resistance states proceed in a gradual way under voltage ramp stimulation, while gradual resistance changes driven by trains of identical spikes cover only a limited resistance window. The results are discussed in terms of the relations among the thermo-electrochemical effects of Joule heating, ion mobility, and resistance change, which provide positive and negative closed loop processes in SET and RESET, respectively. Furthermore, the effect of the competition between opposite tendencies of filament dissolution and formation at opposite metal/HfO2 interfaces is discussed as an additional ingredient affecting the switching dynamics.

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Accepted/In Press date: 14 September 2016
Published date: 26 September 2016
Organisations: Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology

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Local EPrints ID: 403928
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/403928
ISSN: 0003-6951
PURE UUID: 6557475e-3310-44b6-8281-b53e3616ba99
ORCID for T. Prodromakis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6267-6909

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Date deposited: 16 Dec 2016 11:51
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:54

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Author: S. Brivio
Author: E. Covi
Author: A. Serb
Author: T. Prodromakis ORCID iD
Author: M. Fanciulli
Author: S. Spiga

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