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Revival of "dead" memristive devices: case of WO3-x
Zheng-Hua Tan1, Rui Yang, Kazuya Terabe
1Laboratory of Solid State Ionics, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China. yangrui@hust.edu.cn xguo@hust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Inappropriate operation could make a memristive device "dead" and cause the loss of resistive switching performance. In this study, the revival of "dead" devices was investigated in the case of WO3-x-based memristive devices. It is believed that inappropriate operation with a high-voltage pulse creates an ordered structure of oxygen vacancies and such an ordered structure makes the normal reset process fail. By precisely controlled voltage sweeping at certain compliance currents, a "dead" device can be revived. The revival operation disrupts the ordered structure by Joule heating and recovers Schottky-like barrier modulation-based switching.
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