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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 123, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5020070
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- FAME, one of six centers of STARnet
- MARCO
- DARPA
- NSF [DMR 1409068]
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Bi-stable volatile switching devices are being used as access devices in solid-state memory arrays and as the active part of compact oscillators. Such structures exhibit two stable states of resistance and switch between them at a critical value of voltage or current. A typical resistance transient under a constant amplitude voltage pulse starts with a slow decrease followed by a rapid drop and leveling off at a low steady state value. This behavior prompted the interpretation of initial delay and fast transition as due to two different processes. Here, we show that the entire transient including incubation time, transition time, and the final resistance values in TaOx-based switching can be explained by one process, namely, Joule heating with the rapid transition due to the thermal runaway. The time, which is required for the device in the conducting state to relax back to the stable high resistance one, is also consistent with the proposed mechanism. Published by AIP
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