Nonvolatile memristive switching characteristics of tiO 2 films embedded with nickel nanocrystals

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-55

  Panda, Debashis ^a   Dhar, Achintya ^a   Ray, Samit K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

nickel nanocrystals (Ni NCs); Nonvolatile memory; resistive switchingmemory; TiO 2

Indexed keywords

ANNEALED SAMPLES; AVERAGE SIZE; BISTABLES; GOOD STABILITY; HIGH RESISTANCE; MEMORY SWITCHING; NICKEL NANOCRYSTALS; NON-VOLATILE; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; POLYCRYSTALLINE; RESET VOLTAGE; RESISTIVE SWITCHING; RESISTIVE SWITCHING MEMORIES; RESISTIVE SWITCHINGMEMORY; RETENTION PROPERTIES; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS; TIO; TIO 2; TITANIUM DIOXIDE FILMS;

NICKEL; SWITCHING; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 84855697867     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2132142     Document Type: Article

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