Competition between Metallic and Vacancy Defect Conductive
Filaments in a CH<sub>3</sub>NH<sub>3</sub>PbI<sub>3</sub>‑Based
Memory Device
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Abstract
Ion
migration, which can be classified into cation migration and
anion migration, is at the heart of redox-based resistive random access
memory. However, the coexistence of these two types of ion migration
and the resultant conductive filaments (CFs) have not been experimentally
demonstrated in a single memory cell. Here we investigate the competition
between metallic and vacancy defect CFs in a Ag/CH<sub>3</sub>NH<sub>3</sub>PbI<sub>3</sub>/Pt structure, where Ag and CH<sub>3</sub>NH<sub>3</sub>PbI<sub>3</sub> serve as the top electrode and memory medium,
respectively. When the medium layer thickness is hundreds of nanometers,
the formation/diffusion of iodine vacancy (V<sub>I</sub>) CFs dominates
the resistive switching behaviors. The V<sub>I</sub>-based CFs provide
a unique opportunity for the electrical-write and optical-erase operation
in a memory cell. The Ag CFs emerge and coexist with V<sub>I</sub> ones as the medium layer thickness is reduced to ∼90 nm.
Our work not only enriches the mechanisms of the resistive switching
but also would advance the multifunctionalization of resistive random
access memory