Influence of Oxygen Partial Pressure on Resistance Random Access Memory Characteristics of Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of oxygen concentrations of InGaZnO films on the resistive switching characteristics of a Pt/InGaZnO (IGZO)/TiN structure. The IGZO films were prepared by an RF magnetron sputtering system at various oxygen partial pressures at room temperature. The memory devices reveal a reversible unipolar switching behavior. In addition, the high-resistance state current was found to be strongly dependent on oxygen concentration. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analyses attributed this phenomenon to the non-lattice oxygen concentration in the IGZO thin films, rather than the change in crystalline constituent. (C) 2011 The Electrochemical Society. [DOI: 10.1149/2.007112esl] All rights reserved.