Kim Hyeon-Joong, Kim Do-Won, Lee Won-Yong, Kim Kyoungdu, Lee Sin-Hyung, Bae Jin-Hyuk, Kang In-Man, Kim Kwangeun, Jang Jaewon
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea.
School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea.
Materials (Basel). 2022 Mar 3;15(5):1899. doi: 10.3390/ma15051899.
Flexible indium tin oxide (ITO)/Y2O3/Ag resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices were successfully fabricated using a thermal-energy-free ultraviolet (UV)/ozone-assisted photochemical annealing process. Using the UV/ozone-assisted photochemical process, the organic residue can be eliminated, and thinner and smother Y2O3 films than those formed using other methods can be fabricated. The flexible UV/ozone-assisted photochemical annealing process-based ITO/Y2O3/Ag RRAM devices exhibited the properties of conventional bipolar RRAM without any forming process. Furthermore, the pure and amorphous-phase Y2O3 films formed via this process showed a decreased leakage current and an increased high-resistance status (HRS) compared with the films formed using other methods. Therefore, RRAM devices can be realized on plastic substrates using a thermal-energy-free UV/ozone-assisted photochemical annealing process. The fabricated devices exhibited a resistive window (ratio of HRS/low-resistance status (LRS)) of >104, with the HRS and LRS values remaining almost the same (i.e., limited deterioration occurred) for 104 s and up to 102 programming/erasing operation cycles.
采用无热能紫外(UV)/臭氧辅助光化学退火工艺成功制备了柔性氧化铟锡(ITO)/Y2O3/Ag电阻式随机存取存储器(RRAM)器件。利用UV/臭氧辅助光化学工艺,可以消除有机残留物,并且能够制备出比使用其他方法形成的Y2O3薄膜更薄且更光滑的薄膜。基于柔性UV/臭氧辅助光化学退火工艺的ITO/Y2O3/Ag RRAM器件展现出传统双极RRAM的特性,无需任何形成工艺。此外,通过该工艺形成的纯非晶相Y2O3薄膜与使用其他方法形成的薄膜相比,漏电流降低,高电阻状态(HRS)增加。因此,使用无热能UV/臭氧辅助光化学退火工艺可以在塑料基板上实现RRAM器件。所制备的器件呈现出大于104的电阻窗口(HRS与低电阻状态(LRS)之比),在104 s以及多达102次编程/擦除操作循环中,HRS和LRS值几乎保持不变(即发生有限的劣化)。