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Interfacial Metal–Oxide Interactions in Resistive Switching Memories

2017; American Chemical Society; Volume: 9; Issue: 22 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/acsami.7b02921

1944-8252

Deok‐Yong Cho, Michael Luebben, Stefan Wiefels, Kug‐Seung Lee, Ilia Valov,

Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials

Metal oxides are commonly used as electrolytes for redox-based resistive switching memories. In most cases, non-noble metals are directly deposited as ohmic electrodes. We demonstrate that irrespective of bulk thermodynamics predictions an intermediate oxide film a few nanometers in thickness is always formed at the metal/insulator interface, and this layer significantly contributes to the development of reliable switching characteristics. We have tested metal electrodes and metal oxides mostly used for memristive devices, that is, Ta, Hf, and Ti and Ta2O5, HfO2, and SiO2. Intermediate oxide layers are always formed at the interfaces, whereas only the rate of the electrode oxidation depends on the oxygen affinity of the metal and the chemical stability of the oxide matrix. Device failure is associated with complete transition of short-range order to a more disordered main matrix structure.