Improvement of Resistive Switching Characteristic in Silicon Oxide-Based RRAM Through Hydride- Oxidation on Indium Tin Oxide Electrode by Supercritical CO2 Fluid

Supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2) fluid technology was applied to indium-tin-oxide (ITO) electrode to improve the resistive switching characteristic of silicon oxide RRAM through hydride oxidation for the first time. We found device power consumption can be effectively reduced so that side effects can be also restricted under device operation. By applying SCCO2 fluid, more oxygen ions will be introduced into the ITO electrode and thus the participation of net oxygen ions in the RRAM redox reaction will increase. Fourier transform spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to confirm hydride oxidation on ITO electrode. Combined with the current fitting results, we proposed a reaction model to explain the improvement of resistive switching in RRAM by SCCO2 fluids.

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