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MATERIALS HORIZONS
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d3mh00508a
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This paper proposes an electrochemical design for improving the reliability of analog switching in RRAM-based neuromorphic computing by adding a sublayer of ultrafine Cu nanoparticles (U-Cu NPs) to the active Cu2O layer.
Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices have significant advantages for neuromorphic computing but have fatal problems of uncontrollability and abrupt resistive switching behaviors degrading their synaptic performance. In this paper, we propose the electrochemical design of an active Cu2O layer containing a strategic sublayer of ultrafine Cu nanoparticles (U-Cu NPs) to form uniformly dispersed conducting filaments, which can effectively improve the reliability for analog switching of RRAM-based neuromorphic computing. The electrochemical pulse deposited (EPD) U-Cu NPs are linked to the bottom electrode through a semi-conductive path within the bottom Cu2O layer, since the EPD is preferentially carried out on the conductive sites. All Cu2O films with U-Cu NPs are developed in situ in the single electrolyte bath without any pause. The proposed U-Cu NPs can concentrate the external electric field and can generate conductive filament paths for analog resistive switching. The applied electric field was uniformly spread to U-Cu NPs at the center of the active layer and displays resistive switching behavior via multiple conductive filaments. This shows a strong harmony between the resistance-switching characteristics and the analog operation of the active layer. This RRAM device shows outstanding gradual analog switching, great linearity, dynamic range, endurance, precision, speed, and retention characteristics simultaneously and adequately for neuromorphic computing by realizing multiple weak filament-type operation.
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