Title
Reliability/Uniformity improvement induced by an ultrathin TiO2 insertion in Ti/HfO2/Pt resistive switching memories.
Abstract
Reliability/Uniformity of resistance switching in Ti/HfO2/Pt memory structure was improved by inserting an interfacial layer of 5nm-thick TiO2 between Ti and 45nm-thick HfO2. As a native oxide of Ti, TiO2, effectively limits the disorder migration of oxygen from HfO2 to Ti layer, and provides the more chemically-stable and morphologically-uniform interfaces with both the Ti electrode and the HfO2 layer. Meanwhile, more stable resistive switching was observed in Ti/TiO2/HfO2/Pt than that in Ti/HfO2/Pt memory, and the random variation during endurance test observed in Ti/HfO2/Pt was also greatly limited in Ti/TiO2/HfO2/Pt memory. From these results, a thin TiO2 insertion between the Ti electrode with the HfO2 active layer, could greatly improve the reliability/uniformity of the Ti/HfO2/Pt memory devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.microrel.2016.05.013
Microelectronics Reliability
Keywords
Field
DocType
RRAM,Hafnium oxide,Reliability
Hafnium oxide,Active layer,Resistive switching,Oxide,Oxygen,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Electrode,Resistive random-access memory
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
63
0026-2714
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ran Jiang110.48
Zuyin Han210.48
Xianghao Du310.48