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Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2016 Jan 21;18(3):1392-6. doi: 10.1039/c5cp06484h. Epub 2015 Dec 21.

Revival of "dead" memristive devices: case of WO3-x.

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

Zheng-Hua Tan, Rui Yang, Kazuya Terabe, Xue-Bing Yin, Xin Guo

Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Solid State Ionics, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 26685986 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06484h

Abstract

Inappropriate operation could make a memristive device "dead" and cause the loss of resistive switching performance. In this study, the revival of "dead" devices was investigated in the case of WO3-x-based memristive devices. It is believed that inappropriate operation with a high-voltage pulse creates an ordered structure of oxygen vacancies and such an ordered structure makes the normal reset process fail. By precisely controlled voltage sweeping at certain compliance currents, a "dead" device can be revived. The revival operation disrupts the ordered structure by Joule heating and recovers Schottky-like barrier modulation-based switching.

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