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Despite a clear demonstration of bistability in spin-crossover (SCO) materials, the absence of long-range magnetic order and poor electrical conductivity limit their prospect in spintronic and nanoelectronic applications. Intending to…

Memory devices based on resistive switching (RS) have not been fully realised due to lack of understanding of the underlying switching mechanisms. Nature of ion transport responsible for switching and growth of conducting filament in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-17 Sweety Deswal , Ashok Kumar , Ajeet Kumar

We present a computationally inexpensive yet accurate phenomenological model of memristive behavior in titanium dioxide devices by fitting experimental data. By design, the model predicts most accurately I-V relation at small non-disturbing…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Farnood Merrikh-Bayat , Brian Hoskins , Dmitri B. Strukov

For the clear understanding of the role of interface reaction between top metal electrode and titanium oxide layer, we investigated the effects of various top metals on the resistive switching in Metal/a-TiO2/Al devices. The top Al device…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-16 Hu Young Jeong , Jeong Yong Lee , Sung-Yool Choi

Current memcapacitor implementations typically demand complex fabrication processes or depend on organic materials exhibiting poor environmental stability and reproducibility. Here, we demonstrate memcapacitor structures utilizing a quasi…

A tungsten filament immersed in superfluid helium has strong hysteretic $I$-$V$ characteristics. By increasing the applied voltage, a remarkable current drop occurs at a transition voltage, at which the filament enters a non-ohmic hot state…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Che-Chi Shih , Ming-Huei Huang , Pang-Chia Chang , Po-Wei Yu , Wen-Bin Jian , Kimitoshi Kono

Layered two-dimensional (2D) materials provide unique structural features, such as physical gaps between their layers that are only connected through van der Waals (vdW) forces. These vdW gaps can guide the migration of intercalated ions…

Resistive switching (RS) devices, based on soft materials such as organic, biomolecules as well as natural plant extracts etc., has emerged as a promising alternative to the conventional memory technologies. They offer simple device…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-12 Rahul Deb , Debajyoti Bhattacharjee , Syed Arshad Hussain

Reactive metal electrodes (Nb, Ti, Cr, Ta, and Hf) are shown to play an important role in controlling the volatile switching characteristics of metal/Nb2O5/Pt devices. In particular, devices are shown to exhibit stable threshold switching…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Shimul Kanti Nath , Sanjoy Kumar Nandi , Shuai Li , Robert Glen Elliman

Memristors stand out as promising components in the landscape of memory and computing. Memristors are generally defined by a conductance equation containing a state variable that imparts a memory effect. The current-voltage cycling causes…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Agustin Bou , Cedric Gonzales , Pablo P. Boix , Antonio Guerrero , Juan Bisquert

Metallic oxides encased within Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) structures can demonstrate both unipolar and bipolar switching mechanisms, rendering them the capability to exhibit a multitude of resistive states and ultimately function as memory…

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We have measured the critical phase change conditions induced by electrical pulses in Ge2Sb2Te5 nanopillar phase change memory devices by constructing a comprehensive resistance map as a function of pulse parameters (width, amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ozhan Ozatay , Barry Stipe , Jordan Katine , Bruce Terris

Charge-to-spin and spin-to-charge conversion mechanisms in high spin-orbit materials are the new frontier of memory devices. They operate via spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching of a magnetic electrode, driven by an applied charge current. In…

We have characterized the vertical transport properties of epitaxial layered structures composed of Pr$_{0.7}$Ca$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$ (PCMO) sandwiched between SrRuO$_{3}$ (SRO) bottom electrode and several kinds of top electrodes such as SRO,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sawa , T. Fujii , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

The resistance state of filamentary memristors can be tuned by relocating only a few atoms at interatomic distances in the active region of a conducting filament. Thereby the technology holds promise not only in its ultimate downscaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Miklós Csontos , Yannik Horst , Nadia Jimenez Olalla , Ueli Koch , Ivan Shorubalko , András Halbritter , Juerg Leuthold

Electrical switching has been observed in carefully designed metal-insulator-metal devices built at small geometries. These devices are also commonly known as memristors and consist of specific materials such as transition metal oxides,…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-10 Gaurav Gandhi , Varun Aggarwal

Memristive circuit elements constitute a cornerstone for novel electronic applications, such as neuromorphic computing, called to revolutionize information technologies. By definition, memristors are sensitive to the history of electrical…

Electrically driven metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) is of interest in emerging memory devices, neural computation, and high speed electronics. We report on the fabrication of out-of-plane VO2 metal-insulator-metal (MIM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 You Zhou , Xiaonan Chen , Changhyun Ko , Zheng Yang , Chandra Mouli , Shriram Ramanathan

Phase-change memory (PCM), a promising candidate for next-generation non-volatile memories, exploits quenched glassy and thermodynamically stable crystalline states as reversibly switchable state variables. We demonstrate PCM functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-15 H. Oike , F. Kagawa , N. Ogawa , A. Ueda , H. Mori , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

Nanoscale metal oxide memristors have potential in the development of brain-inspired computing systems that are scalable and efficient1-3. In such systems, memristors represent the native electronic analogues of the biological synapses.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Cheng-Chih Hsieh , Anupam Roy , Yao-Feng Chang , Davood Shahrjerdi , Sanjay K. Banerjee