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Redox-based resistive switching memories

Waser, 2012

Document ID
6725394933006717374
Author
Waser R
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Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology

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This review covers resistive random access memories which utilize redox processes and ionic motion on the nanoscale as their storage principle (ReRAM). Generic aspects are described in order to provide the physics and chemistry background for the explanation of …
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    • H01L45/14—Selection of switching materials
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    • H01L45/085—Bistable or multistable switching devices, e.g. for resistance switching non-volatile memory based on migration or redistribution of ionic species, e.g. anions, vacancies the species being metal cations, e.g. programmable metallization cells
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    • H01L45/06—Bistable or multistable switching devices, e.g. for resistance switching non-volatile memory based on solid-state phase change, e.g. between amorphous and crystalline phases, Ovshinsky effect
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