Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 551, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.149386
Keywords
RRAM; Resistive switching; Hafnium oxide; Titanium nitride; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Band bending
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Funding
- Swedish Research Council [2014-04580, 2016-06186, 2017-03871, 2017-04108]
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Swedish Research Council [2017-03871, 2014-04580, 2016-06186, 2017-04108] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
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This study explores the correlation between the physicochemical properties of TiN bottom metal electrode and HfOx/TiN interface and the resistive switching behavior of RRAM devices, aiming to enhance the performance of stack integration. The research demonstrates that the concentration of oxygen vacancies in HfOx layer affects the band bending and the formation of a Schottky barrier, potentially enabling dense, large-scale, and low-power memory integration with the ultra-thin-HfOx/TiN device stack.
Resistive random access memory (RRAM) technologies based on non-volatile resistive filament redox switching oxides have the potential of drastically improving the performance of future mass-storage solutions. However, the physico-chemical properties of the TiN bottom metal electrode (BME) can significantly alter the resistive switching (RS) behavior of the oxygen-vacancy RRAM devices, yet the correlation between RS and the physicochemical properties of TiN and HfOx/TiN interface remains unclear. Here, we establish this particular correlation via detailed material and electrical characterization for the purpose of achieving further performance enhancement of the stack integration. Two types of RRAM stacks were fabricated where the TiN BME was fabricated by physical vapor deposition (PVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD), respectively. The HfOx layer in HfOx/PVD-TiN is more oxygen deficient than that of the HfOx/ALD-TiN because of more defective PVD-TiN and probably because pristine ALD-TiN has a thicker TiO2 overlayer. Higher concentration of oxygen vacancies induces a larger magnitude of band bending at the HfOx/PVD-TiN interface and leads to the formation of a higher Schottky barrier. Pulsed endurance measurements of up to 10(6) switches, with 10 mu A +/- 1.0 V pulses, demonstrate the potential of the studied ultra-thin-HfOx/TiN device stack for dense, large scale, and low-power memory integration.
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