Voltage-driven on-off transition and tradeoff with program and erase current in Programmable Metallization Cell (PMC) memory

Deepak Kamalanathan, Ugo Russo, Daniele Ielmini, Michael Kozicki

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Abstract

The transition from the ON (low-resistance) to the OFF (high-resistance) state is studied for programmable metallization cell nonvolatile memories. The stability of the ON state under stress voltage and the erase operation were characterized as a function of the initial resistance in the timescale from 100 μs to 100 s. The data suggest that the on-off transition is limited by voltage-driven ion hopping and that filaments with larger size, and hence lower resistance, are more stable. Finally, results are discussed with the aid of an analytical model for erase, which is also used to address the tradeoff between ON-state stability and program/erase currents.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)553-555
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Electron Device Letters
Volume30
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Conductive bridging RAM (CBRAM)
  • Ionic conduction
  • Nonvolatile memory
  • ON-state stability
  • Programmable metallization cell (PMC)
  • Reliability modeling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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