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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 5(98), p. 053503

DOI: 10.1063/1.3552676

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Time-dependent current-voltage curves during the forming process in unipolar resistance switching

Journal article published in 2011 by S. B. Lee, H. K. Yoo, S. H. Chang, L. G. Gao, B. S. Kang, M.-J. Lee ORCID, C. J. Kim, T. W. Noh
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Abstract

We investigated the time-dependent current-voltage curves of the forming process in unipolar resistance switching. We applied triggered-voltage triangular-waveform (pulse-waveform) signals with varied sweep rate (amplitude) to Pt/SrTiOx/Pt capacitors. By investigating their temperature dependences, we found that the forming process was driven by two different mechanisms, depending on the sweep rate (amplitude): a purely electrical dielectric breakdown and a thermally assisted dielectric breakdown. For the latter process, we observed precursory changes in the current I(t) before the forming process. By fitting the time-dependent precursory changes with I(t)=Io−A exp(−t/Τ), we suggest that the thermally activated migration of oxygen vacancies/ions could help the thermally assisted dielectric breakdown.