Anatomy of Ag/Hafnia-Based Selectors with 10<sup>10</sup> Nonlinearity.

Midya, Rivu; Wang, Zhongrui; Zhang, Jiaming; Savel'ev, Sergey E; Li, Can; Rao, Mingyi; Jang, Moon Hyung; Joshi, Saumil et al. · Adv Mater · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A novel Ag/oxide-based threshold switching device with attractive features including ≈10<sup>10</sup> nonlinearity is developed. High-resolution transmission electron microscopic analysis of the nanoscale crosspoint device suggests that elongation of an Ag nanoparticle under voltage bias followed by spontaneous reformation of a more spherical shape after power off is responsible for the observed threshold switching.