Aliovalent Ta-Doping-Engineered Oxygen Vacancy Configurations for Ultralow-Voltage Resistive Memory Devices: A DFT-Supported Experimental Study.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
; 14(30): 34822-34834, 2022 Aug 03.
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Alteration of transport properties of any material, especially metal oxides, by doping suitable impurities is not straightforward as it may introduce multiple defects like oxygen vacancies (Vo) in the system. It plays a decisive role in controlling the resistive switching (RS) performance of metal oxide-based memory devices. Therefore, a judicious choice of dopants and their atomic concentrations is crucial for achieving an optimum Vo configuration. Here, we show that the rational designing of RS memory devices with cationic dopants (Ta), in particular, Au/Ti1-xTaxO2-δ/Pt devices, is promising for the upcoming non-volatile memory technology. Indeed, a current window of â¼104 is realized at an ultralow voltage as low as 0.25 V with significant retention (â¼104 s) and endurance (â¼105 cycles) of the device by considering 1.11 at % Ta doping. The obtained device parameters are compared with those in the available literature to establish its excellent performance. Furthermore, using detailed experimental analyses and density functional theory (DFT)-based first-principles calculations, we comprehend that the meticulous presence of Vo configurations and the columnar-like dendritic structures is crucial for achieving ultralow-voltage bipolar RS characteristics. In fact, the dopant-mediated Vo interactions are found to be responsible for the enhancement in local current conduction, as evidenced from the DFT-simulated electron localization function plots, and these, in turn, augment the device performance. Overall, the present study on cationic-dopant-controlled defect engineering could pave a neoteric direction for future energy-efficient oxide memristors.
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