Filamentary Resistive Switching and Capacitance-Voltage Characteristics of the a-IGZO/TiO2 Memory.

In this study, molybdenum tungsten/amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO)/TiO2/n-type Si-based resistive random access memory (ReRAM) is manufactured. After deposition of the a-IGZO, annealing was performed at 200, 300, 400, and 500 °C for approximately 1 h in order to analyze the effect of temperature change on the ReRAM after post annealing in a furnace. As a result of measuring the current-voltage curve, the a-IGZO/TiO2-based ReRAM annealed at 400 °C reached compliance current in a low-resistance state, and showed the most complete hysteresis curve. In the a-IGZO layer annealed at 400 °C, the O1/Ototal value increased most significantly, to approximately 78.2%, and the O3/Ototal value decreased the most, to approximately 2.6%. As a result, the a-IGZO/TiO2-based ReRAM annealed at 400 °C reduced conductivity and prevented an increase in leakage current caused by oxygen vacancies with sufficient recovery of the metal-oxygen bond. Scanning electron microscopy analysis revealed that the a-IGZO surface showed hillocks at a high post annealing temperature of 500 °C, which greatly increased the surface roughness and caused the surface area performance to deteriorate. Finally, as a result of measuring the capacitance-voltage curve in the a-IGZO/TiO2-based ReRAM in the range of -2 V to 4 V, the accumulation capacitance value of the ReRAM annealed at 400 °C increased most in a nonvolatile behavior.

Electrical Characteristics of TiO(2-x)/TiO2 Resistive Switching Memory Fabricated by Atomic Layer Deposition.

The rewritable low-power operated nonvolatile resistive random access memory device composed of Al(top)/TiO(2-x)/TiO2/Al(bottom) are demonstrated. The active component, the TiO2 layer of the device, is fabricated by atomic layer deposition. The oxygen vacancy TiO(2-x)/TiO2 layer annealed at 600 degrees C using rapid thermal annealing and it was proven to be in the rutile phase by X-ray diffraction analysis. The device exhibits nonvolatile memory behavior consistent with resistive switching properties, demonstrates an ON/OFF ratio of approximately 1,000:1, requires range of low voltage less than 0.4 V, and is still operational more than 120 times.