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Transition-metal oxide films, demonstrating the effects of both threshold and nonvolatile memory resistive switching, have been recently proposed as candidate materials for storage-class memory. In this work we describe some experimental…
Functional oxides based resistive memories are recognized as potential candidate for the next-generation high density data storage and neuromorphic applications. Fundamental understanding of the compositional changes in the functional…
Solid state ionic conductors are good candidates for the next generation of nonvolatile computer memory elements. Such devices have to show reproducible resistance switching at reasonable voltage and current values even if scaled down to…
Electrical characteristics of a Co/TiO_x/Co resistive memory device, fabricated by two different methods are reported. In addition to crystalline TiO_2 layers fabricated via conventional atomic layer deposition (ALD), an alternative method…
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are complex electronic systems which exhibit a multitude of collective phenomena. Two archetypal examples are VO2 and NdNiO3, which undergo a metal-insulator phase-transition (MIT), the origin of which is…
Stimulus-responsive shape memory materials have attracted tremendous research interests recently, with much effort focused on improving their mechanical actuation. Driven by the needs of nanoelectromechnical devices, materials with large…
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…
We analyzed micrometer-scale titanium-niobium-oxide prototype memristors, which exhibited low write-power (<3 {\mu}W) and energy (<200 fJ/bit/{\mu}m2), low read-power (~nW), and high endurance (>millions of cycles). To understand their…
Voltage-controlled resistive switching is demonstrated in various gap systems on SiO2 substrate. The nanosized gaps are made by different means using different materials including metal, semiconductor, and metallic nonmetal. The switching…
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…
Gas and moisture sensing devices leveraging the resistive switching effect in transition metal oxide memristors promise to revolutionize next-generation, nano-scaled, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable sensor solutions. These…
In this paper, we report the electrical and structural properties of the oxide-based metal/ferroelectric/metal (MFM) junctions. The heterostructures are composed of ultrathin layers of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO) as a metallic layer and, BaTiO3…
Current-voltage characteristics of planar junctions formed by an epitaxial c-axis oriented YBa2Cu3O7-x thin film micro-bridge and Ag counter-electrode were measured in the temperature range from 4.2 K to 300 K. A hysteretic behavior related…
We introduce a model that accounts for the bipolar resistive switching phenomenom observed in transition metal oxides. It qualitatively describes the electric field-enhanced migration of oxygen vacancies at the nano-scale. The numerical…
Many nanoelectronic devices rely on thin dielectric barriers through which electrons tunnel. For instance, aluminium oxide barriers are used as Josephson junctions in superconducting electronics. The reproducibility and drift of circuit…
Superlattices may play an important role in next generation electronic and spintronic devices if the key-challenge of the reading and writing data can be solved. This challenge emerges from the coupling of low dimensional individual layers…
Vertical structures of SiO$_{2}$ sandwiched between a top tungsten electrode and conducting non-metal substrate were fabricated by dry and wet etching methods. Both structures exhibit similar voltage-controlled memory behaviors, in which…
In this paper we report an exhaustive experimental work on magnetoresistance effects found in a system in which a large number of nanocontacts are produced between oxidized Fe fine particles. We have obtained the following performances: i)…
Exotic features of a metal/oxide/metal (MOM) sandwich, which will be the basis for a drastically innovative nonvolatile memory device, is brought to light from a physical point of view. Here the insulator is one of the ubiquitous and…
Aluminium oxide (AlO$_\mathrm{x}$) tunnel junctions are important components in a range of nanoelectric devices including superconducting qubits where they can be used as Josephson junctions. While many improvements in the reproducibility…