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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 87, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2149172
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An experimental investigation was carried out on the kinetic nature of the set process in a phase change memory device by combined analyses of set voltage wave forms and time-resolved low-field resistances. As it turned out, the progress of a set process may be measured in terms of three characteristic times in sequence i.e., threshold switching time t(th), incubation time for crystallization t(inc), and complete set time t(set). These characteristic times are supposed to demarcate, in some measure, different stages of crystallization in the memory material during a set process. Each of these times has a strong dependence on input pulse voltage and particularly threshold switching time t(th) was found to have an exponentially decaying dependence. The latter may be related to the decreasing capacitance of an amorphous phase-change material with approaching threshold switching.
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