Conducting-interlayer SiOx memory devices on rigid and flexible substrates

Gunuk Wang, Abdul Rahman O. Raji, Jae Hwang Lee, James M. Tour

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Abstract

SiOx memory devices that offer significant improvement in switching performance were fabricated at room temperature with conducting interlayers such as Pd, Ti, carbon, or multilayer graphene. In particular, the Pd-interlayer SiOx memory devices exhibited improvements in lowering the electroforming voltages and threshold voltages as the number of inserted Pd layers was increased, as compared to a pure SiOx memory structure. In addition, we demonstrated that the Pd-interlayer SiOx junction fabricated on a flexible substrate maintained low electroforming voltage and mechanically stable switching properties. From these observations, a possible switching mechanism is discussed based on the formation of individual conducting paths at the weakest edge regions of each SiOx film, where the normalized bond-breaking probability of SiOx is influenced by the voltage and the thickness of SiOx. This fabrication approach offers a useful structural platform for next-generation memory applications for enhancement of the switching properties while maintaining a low-temperature fabrication method that is even amenable with flexible substrates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1410-1418
Number of pages9
JournalACS nano
Volume8
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Feb 25
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • RRAM
  • SiO
  • conducting-interlayer SiO memory
  • electroforming
  • flexible memory
  • nonvolatile memory

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Materials Science(all)
  • Engineering(all)
  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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