Synergies of Electrochemical Metallization and Valance Change in All-Inorganic Perovskite Quantum Dots for Resistive Switching.

Wang, Yan; Lv, Ziyu; Liao, Qiufan; Shan, Haiquan; Chen, Jinrui; Zhou, Ye; Zhou, Li; Chen, Xiaoli et al. · Adv Mater · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The in-depth understanding of ions' generation and movement inside all-inorganic perovskite quantum dots (CsPbBr<sub>3</sub> QDs), which may lead to a paradigm to break through the conventional von Neumann bottleneck, is strictly limited. Here, it is shown that formation and annihilation of metal conductive filaments and Br<sup>-</sup> ion vacancy filaments driven by an external electric field and light irradiation can lead to pronounced resistive-switching effects. Verified by field-emission scanning electron microscopy as well as energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis, the resistive switching behavior of CsPbBr<sub>3</sub> QD-based photonic resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is initiated by the electrochemical metallization and valance change. By coupling CsPbBr<sub>3</sub> QD-based RRAM with a p-channel transistor, the novel application of an RRAM-gate field-effect transistor presenting analogous functions of flash memory is further demonstrated. These results may accelerate the technological deployment of all-inorganic perovskite QD-based photonic resistive memory for successful logic application.