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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 4(91), 2015

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.91.041101

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Phase-change memory function of correlated electrons in organic conductors

Journal article published in 2015 by H. Oike, F. Kagawa ORCID, N. Ogawa, A. Ueda, H. Mori, M. Kawasaki, Y. Tokura
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Abstract

Phase-change memory (PCM), a promising candidate for next-generation non-volatile memories, exploits quenched glassy and thermodynamically stable crystalline states as reversibly switchable state variables. We demonstrate PCM functions emerging from a charge-configuration degree of freedom in strongly correlated electron systems. Non-volatile reversible switching between a high-resistivity charge-crystalline (or charge-ordered) state and a low-resistivity quenched state, charge glass, is achieved experimentally via heat pulses supplied by optical or electrical means in organic conductors $\theta$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$$X$. Switching that is one order of magnitude faster is observed in another isostructural material that requires faster cooling to kinetically avoid charge crystallization, indicating that the material's critical cooling rate can be useful guidelines for pursuing a faster correlated-electron PCM function. ; Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. Selected for Editors' Suggestions