Picosecond Femtojoule Resistive Switching in Nanoscale VO$_{2}$ Memristors

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Hauptverfasser: Schmid, S. W., Pósa, L., Török, T. N., Sánta, B., Pollner, Z., Molnár, G., Horst, Y., Volk, J., Leuthold, J., Halbritter, A., Csontos, M.
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author Schmid, S. W.
Pósa, L.
Török, T. N.
Sánta, B.
Pollner, Z.
Molnár, G.
Horst, Y.
Volk, J.
Leuthold, J.
Halbritter, A.
Csontos, M.
author_facet Schmid, S. W.
Pósa, L.
Török, T. N.
Sánta, B.
Pollner, Z.
Molnár, G.
Horst, Y.
Volk, J.
Leuthold, J.
Halbritter, A.
Csontos, M.
contents Beyond-Moore computing technologies are expected to provide a sustainable alternative to the von Neumann approach not only due to their down-scaling potential but also via exploiting device-level functional complexity at the lowest possible energy consumption. The dynamics of the Mott transition in correlated electron oxides, such as vanadium dioxide, has been identified as a rich and reliable source of such functional complexity. However, its full potential in high-speed and low-power operation has been largely unexplored. We fabricated nanoscale VO$_{2}$ devices embedded in a broad-band test circuit to study the speed and energy limitations of their resistive switching operation. Our picosecond time-resolution, real-time resistive switching experiments and numerical simulations demonstrate that tunable low-resistance states can be set by the application of 20~ps long, $<$1.7~V amplitude voltage pulses at 15~ps incubation times and switching energies starting from a few femtojoule. Moreover, we demonstrate that at nanometer-scale device sizes not only the electric field induced insulator-to-metal transition, but also the thermal conduction limited metal-to-insulator transition can take place at timescales of 100's of picoseconds. These orders of magnitude breakthroughs open the route to the design of high-speed and low-power dynamical circuits for a plethora of neuromorphic computing applications from pattern recognition to numerical optimization.
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spellingShingle Picosecond Femtojoule Resistive Switching in Nanoscale VO$_{2}$ Memristors
Schmid, S. W.
Pósa, L.
Török, T. N.
Sánta, B.
Pollner, Z.
Molnár, G.
Horst, Y.
Volk, J.
Leuthold, J.
Halbritter, A.
Csontos, M.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Beyond-Moore computing technologies are expected to provide a sustainable alternative to the von Neumann approach not only due to their down-scaling potential but also via exploiting device-level functional complexity at the lowest possible energy consumption. The dynamics of the Mott transition in correlated electron oxides, such as vanadium dioxide, has been identified as a rich and reliable source of such functional complexity. However, its full potential in high-speed and low-power operation has been largely unexplored. We fabricated nanoscale VO$_{2}$ devices embedded in a broad-band test circuit to study the speed and energy limitations of their resistive switching operation. Our picosecond time-resolution, real-time resistive switching experiments and numerical simulations demonstrate that tunable low-resistance states can be set by the application of 20~ps long, $<$1.7~V amplitude voltage pulses at 15~ps incubation times and switching energies starting from a few femtojoule. Moreover, we demonstrate that at nanometer-scale device sizes not only the electric field induced insulator-to-metal transition, but also the thermal conduction limited metal-to-insulator transition can take place at timescales of 100's of picoseconds. These orders of magnitude breakthroughs open the route to the design of high-speed and low-power dynamical circuits for a plethora of neuromorphic computing applications from pattern recognition to numerical optimization.
title Picosecond Femtojoule Resistive Switching in Nanoscale VO$_{2}$ Memristors
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13530