Publication
Title
Chemical insight into electroforming of resistive switching manganite heterostructures
Author
Abstract
We have investigated the role of the electroforming process in the establishment of resistive switching behaviour for Pt/Ti/Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3/SrRuO3 layered heterostructures (Pt/Ti/PCMO/SRO) acting as non-volatile Resistance Random Access Memories (RRAMs). Electron spectroscopy measurements demonstrate that the higher resistance state resulting from electroforming of as-prepared devices is strictly correlated with the oxidation of the top electrode Ti layer through field-induced electromigration of oxygen ions. Conversely, PCMO exhibits oxygen depletion and downward change of the chemical potential for both resistive states. Impedance spectroscopy analysis, supported by the detailed knowledge of these effects, provides an accurate model description of the device resistive behaviour. The main contributions to the change of resistance from the as-prepared (low resistance) to the electroformed (high resistance) states are respectively due to reduced PCMO at the boundary with the Ti electrode and to the formation of an anisotropic np junction between the Ti and the PCMO layers.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nanoscale / Royal Society of Chemistry [London] - Cambridge, 2009, currens
Publication
Cambridge : 2013
ISSN
2040-3364 [print]
2040-3372 [online]
DOI
10.1039/C3NR00106G
Volume/pages
5 :9 (2013) , p. 3954-3960
ISI
000317859400051
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
Interfacing Oxides (IFOX).
Exploring electron vortex beams (VORTEX).
Counting Atoms in Nanomaterials (COUNTATOMS).
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Subject
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 18.06.2013
Last edited 09.10.2023
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