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A Comprehensive Study of Effect of Composition on Resistive Switching of HfxAl1-xOy based RRAM devices by Combinatorial Sputtering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2015

Pankaj Kumbhare ,
Paritosh Meihar ,
Senthilkumar Rajarathinam ,
Shikhar Chouhan ,
Suhit Pai ,
Neeraj Panwar  and
U. Ganguly
Pankaj Kumbhare
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400076, India
Paritosh Meihar
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400076, India
Senthilkumar Rajarathinam
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400076, India
Shikhar Chouhan
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400076, India
Suhit Pai
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400076, India
Neeraj Panwar
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400076, India
U. Ganguly
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400076, India
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Abstract

We use the combinatorial sputter technique to simultaneously sputter HfO2 and Al2O3 targets to obtain a film of HfxAl1-xOy of specific compositions. The effect of oxide thickness, oxide composition (i.e. Hf:Al ratio) and oxygen gettering layer thickness on DC sweep based resistive switching performance of RRAM is investigated. The oxide thickness primarily affects forming voltage and causes the memory window to increase for the thinnest oxide (6 nm, other thicknesses – 12 nm, 18 nm). The composition of oxide has a non-linear effect on the memory window (high to low resistance ratio) and variability of resistance states whereas the variability of set voltage improves significantly for ternary oxide compared to individual binary oxides. Finally, electrode interlayer for oxygen-gettering is also critical where a thin Ti layer of 1.5nm maintains the memory window but reduces variability in HRS, LRS, reduces Vset and Vreset and improves the variability in Vset.

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sputteringphysical vapor deposition (PVD)x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1729: Symposium M – Materials and Technology for Nonvolatile Memories , 2015 , pp. 65 - 70
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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