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This work reports a strong oxygen-content dependence of the resistive switching characteristics in TiO x films grown by sputtering Ti under an oxygen ambient at flow rates (F Q ) from 0.4 to 2.0 sccm. Remarkable improvements in the resistive switching parameters of the Al/TiO x /Pt memory devices, including dispersions of set/reset voltages, on/off ratio, and data retention, are obtained at F Q = 1.1 sccm. Based on the results of Rutherford backscattering and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we show that the resistive switching characteristics of Al/TiO x /Pt devices are determined by the stoichiometry of the TiO x films and by the number of mobile oxygen ions in the films.
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Lim, K.Y., Park, J.H., Kim, S. et al. Effect of oxygen content on resistive switching memory characteristics of TiO x films. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 60, 791–794 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.60.791
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