Improved Resistive Switching with Low-Power Synaptic Behaviors of ZnO/Al2O3 Bilayer Structure

Chandreswar Mahata, Jongmin Park, Muhammad Ismail, Dae Hwan Kim, Sungjun Kim

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Abstract

In this work, the resistive switching behavior of bilayer ZnO/Al2O3-based resistive-switching random access memory (RRAM) devices is demonstrated. The polycrystalline nature of the ZnO layer confirms the grain boundary, which helps easy oxygen ion diffusion. Multilevel resistance states were modulated under DC bias by varying the current compliance from 0.1 mA to 0.8 mA, the SET operations where the low resistance state of the memristor device was reduced from 25 kΩ to 2.4 kΩ. The presence of Al2O3 acts as a redox layer and facilitates oxygen vacancy exchange that demonstrates stable gradual conductance change. Stepwise disruption of conductive filaments was monitored depending on the slow DC voltage sweep rate. This is attributed to the atomic scale modulation of oxygen vacancies with four distinct reproducible quantized conductance states, which shows multilevel data storage capability. Moreover, several crucial synaptic properties such as potentiation/depression under identical presynaptic pulses and the spike-rate-dependent plasticity were implemented on ITO/ZnO/Al2O3/TaN memristor. The postsynaptic current change was monitored defining the long-term potentiation by increasing the presynaptic stimulus frequency from 5 Hz to 100 Hz. Moreover, the repetitive pulse voltage stimulation transformed the short-term plasticity to long-term plasticity during spike-number-dependent plasticity.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6663
JournalMaterials
Volume15
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2022

Keywords

  • long-term potentiation
  • low-power
  • resistive switching
  • short-term plasticity
  • synaptic plasticity
  • ZnO/AlO bilayer

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