標題: Improving Performance by Doping Gadolinium Into the Indium-Tin-Oxide Electrode in HfO2-Based Resistive Random Access Memory
作者: Chen, Po-Hsun
Chang, Kuan-Chang
Chang, Ting-Chang
Tsai, Tsung-Ming
Pan, Chih-Hung
Lin, Chih-Yang
Jin, Fu-Yuan
Chen, Min-Chen
Huang, Hui-Chun
Wang, Ming-Hui
Lo, Ikai
Zheng, Jin-Cheng
Sze, Simon M.
電子工程學系及電子研究所
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
關鍵字: Resistive random access memory (RRAM);indium-tin-oxide (ITO);gadolinium (Gd);electrode
公開日期: May-2016
摘要: This letter investigates the characteristics of doping gadolinium (Gd) in an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) electrode in HfO2-based resistive random access memory (RRAM). Identical bottom electrodes and insulators were made but then capped by either pure ITO or a Gd: ITO top electrode. Doping Gd in the ITO electrode produces lower operation currents in both high-resistance state (HRS) and low-resistance state (LRS) as well as enlarging the memory window. This excellent performance suggests a remarkable potential to improve RRAM applications. Schottky emission mechanism dominates both HRS and LRS according to current fitting results, and is confirmed by temperature effect experiments. The resistive switching behavior of the Gd:ITO device is explained by our model and is also confirmed by material analysis and electrical measurements. Furthermore, reliability tests verify the Gd: ITO device\'s capability to perform data storage as a nonvolatile memory.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LED.2016.2548499
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/133633
ISSN: 0741-3106
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2016.2548499
期刊: IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS
Volume: 37
Issue: 5
起始頁: 584
結束頁: 587
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