Resistive RAM Based on Hfox and its Temperature Instability Study

High performance Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) based on HfOx has been prepared and its temperature instability has been investigated in this work. With increasing temperature, it is found that: leakage current at high resistance state increases, which can be explained by the higher density of traps inside dielectrics (related to trap-assistant tunneling), leading to a smaller On/Off ratio; set and reset voltages decrease, which may be attributed to the higher oxygen ion mobility, in addition to the reduced potential barrier to create / recover oxygen ions (or oxygen vacancies); temperature impact on the RRAM retention degradation is more serious than electrical bias.

Authors:

• Z. Fang
• H.Y. Yu
• W.J. Liu
• N. Singh
• G.Q. Lo

Keywords:

• RRAM
• resistive switching
• temperature instability.

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