In recent years, due to the rapid development of electronic products, non-volatile
memory has become more and more important. However, flash memory has faced some
physical limits bottleneck with size scaling-down. In order to overcome this problem,
alternative memory technologies have been extensively investigated, including ferroelectric
random access memory (FeRAM), magneto resistive RAM (MRAM), phase-change RAM
(PRAM), and resistive RAM (RRAM). All of this potential next generation non-volatile
memory, the resistive random access memory has most advantages such as simple structure,
lower consumption of energy, lower operating voltage, high operating speed, high storage
time and non-destructive access, which make it be the most potential candidate of the next
generation non-volatile memory.
Many studies have proposed to explain the resistance switching phenomenon, which
is due to the metallic filament or the oxygen vacancies. Therefore, in order to investigate
the influence of resistance switching characteristic by metal or oxygen, we choose the
non-metal contained boron oxy-nitride film as the insulator layer and successfully make the
resistance has the switchable characteristic of this device. Furthermore, we improved the
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stability by using the Gadolinium-doped method in the boron oxy-nitride based film. In
addition, we observed the negative current differential phenomenon during the set process,
which can further controlled by lower operating voltage to achieve the interfacial resistance
switching. We think that is due to the formation of nitrogen titanium oxide at the interface
between insulator layer and titanium nitride electrode, which caused the Schottky barrier
formation and reduced the current flow. In addition, current conduction fitting can also
confirm this hypothesis. Besides, titanium nitride easily bond with oxygen ions; moreover,
the oxygen ions can be easily disturbed at higher temperature ambient. We believed there
may easily form the nitrogen titanium oxide layer in higher temperature environment;
which also improve by a series of varied temperature experiments. However, this nitrogen
titanium oxide layer formed naturally very easily, resulting in an inevitable problem of data
retention time, which wish to be resolved in the future.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0727111-002334 |
| Date | 27 July 2011 |
| Creators | Cheng, Kai-Hung |
| Contributors | Cheng-Tung Huang, Ann-Kuo Chu, Tsung-Ming Tsai, Ting-Chang Chang, Osbert Cheng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0727111-002334 |
| Rights | restricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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