TY - JOUR
T1 - High-Performance TiN/Al2O3/ZnO/Al2O3/TiN Flexible RRAM Device with High Bending Condition
AU - Kumar, Dayanand
AU - Chand, Umesh
AU - Siang, Lew Wen
AU - Tseng, Tseung Yuen
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - The bipolar resistive switching (RS) characteristics of the ZnO-based TiN/Al2O3/ZnO/Al2O3/TiN structure are investigated for flexible nonvolatile memory applications. Using a thin Al2O3 buffer layer on both sides of the ZnO device shows uniform and eminently stable bipolar resistance switching characteristics. The device exhibits good RS with more than two orders of resistance ON-OFF ratio, retention of >104 s at 120 °C, good dc endurance >104 cycles, and high ac endurance of >108 cycles with 40-ns pulsewidth without any degradation. The device shows high mechanical stability when under 104 continuous repetitive flexible bendings, indicating that high endurance with a very small bending radius of up to 3 mm. The lower Gibbs free energy of the Al2O3 (-1676 kJ/mol) film compared with the ZnO (-320.4 kJ/mol) and TiO2 (-994 kJ/mol) films can improve the RS properties of the TiN/Al2O3/ZnO/Al2O3/TiN device. The significant improvement in the TiN/Al2O3/ZnO/Al2O3/TiN device is due to the reason that thin Al2O3 layers on both sides of ZnO would help stabilize the local oxygen migrations for the formation and rupture of the conductive filament during the continuous switching cycles, resulting in high memory switching characteristics.
AB - The bipolar resistive switching (RS) characteristics of the ZnO-based TiN/Al2O3/ZnO/Al2O3/TiN structure are investigated for flexible nonvolatile memory applications. Using a thin Al2O3 buffer layer on both sides of the ZnO device shows uniform and eminently stable bipolar resistance switching characteristics. The device exhibits good RS with more than two orders of resistance ON-OFF ratio, retention of >104 s at 120 °C, good dc endurance >104 cycles, and high ac endurance of >108 cycles with 40-ns pulsewidth without any degradation. The device shows high mechanical stability when under 104 continuous repetitive flexible bendings, indicating that high endurance with a very small bending radius of up to 3 mm. The lower Gibbs free energy of the Al2O3 (-1676 kJ/mol) film compared with the ZnO (-320.4 kJ/mol) and TiO2 (-994 kJ/mol) films can improve the RS properties of the TiN/Al2O3/ZnO/Al2O3/TiN device. The significant improvement in the TiN/Al2O3/ZnO/Al2O3/TiN device is due to the reason that thin Al2O3 layers on both sides of ZnO would help stabilize the local oxygen migrations for the formation and rupture of the conductive filament during the continuous switching cycles, resulting in high memory switching characteristics.
KW - Conductive filament (CF)
KW - Gibbs free energy
KW - Poole-Frenkel conduction
KW - resistive switching (RS)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078878588&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TED.2019.2959883
DO - 10.1109/TED.2019.2959883
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078878588
SN - 0018-9383
VL - 67
SP - 493
EP - 498
JO - Ieee Transactions On Electron Devices
JF - Ieee Transactions On Electron Devices
IS - 2
M1 - 8957105
ER -