Spectromicroscopy of tantalum oxide memristors

John Paul Strachan*, Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro, J. Joshua Yang, M. X. Zhang, Feng Miao, Ilan Goldfarb, Martin Holt, Volker Rose, R. Stanley Williams

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Abstract

We report experiments to measure material changes in tantalum oxide-based memristive devices. The high endurance and low power demonstrated in this material system suggests a unique mechanism for the switching, which we investigated using x-ray based spectromicroscopy and nanospectroscopy. Our study nondestructively identified a localized (<150nm diameter) Ta-rich phase surrounded by nano- or polycrystalline Ta2 O5.

Original languageEnglish
Article number242114
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume98
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Jun 2011

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