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Hauptverfasser: Li, Jingxian, Jalbert, Andrew J., Simakas, Leah S., Geisler, Noah J., Watkins, Virgil J., Cline, Laszlo A., Fuller, Elliot J., Talin, A. Alec, Li, Yiyang
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16067
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author Li, Jingxian
Jalbert, Andrew J.
Simakas, Leah S.
Geisler, Noah J.
Watkins, Virgil J.
Cline, Laszlo A.
Fuller, Elliot J.
Talin, A. Alec
Li, Yiyang
author_facet Li, Jingxian
Jalbert, Andrew J.
Simakas, Leah S.
Geisler, Noah J.
Watkins, Virgil J.
Cline, Laszlo A.
Fuller, Elliot J.
Talin, A. Alec
Li, Yiyang
contents CMOS-based microelectronics are limited to ~150°C and therefore not suitable for the extreme high temperatures in aerospace, energy, and space applications. While wide bandgap semiconductors can provide high-temperature logic, nonvolatile memory devices at high temperatures have been challenging. In this work, we develop a nonvolatile electrochemical memory cell that stores and retains analog and digital information at temperatures as high as 600 °C. Through correlative electron microscopy, we show that this high-temperature information retention is a result of composition phase separation between the oxidized and reduced forms of amorphous tantalum oxide. This result demonstrates a memory concept that is resilient at extreme temperatures and reveals phase separation as the principal mechanism that enables nonvolatile information storage in these electrochemical memory cells.
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spellingShingle Nonvolatile Electrochemical Memory at 600C Enabled by Composition Phase Separation
Li, Jingxian
Jalbert, Andrew J.
Simakas, Leah S.
Geisler, Noah J.
Watkins, Virgil J.
Cline, Laszlo A.
Fuller, Elliot J.
Talin, A. Alec
Li, Yiyang
Applied Physics
Materials Science
CMOS-based microelectronics are limited to ~150°C and therefore not suitable for the extreme high temperatures in aerospace, energy, and space applications. While wide bandgap semiconductors can provide high-temperature logic, nonvolatile memory devices at high temperatures have been challenging. In this work, we develop a nonvolatile electrochemical memory cell that stores and retains analog and digital information at temperatures as high as 600 °C. Through correlative electron microscopy, we show that this high-temperature information retention is a result of composition phase separation between the oxidized and reduced forms of amorphous tantalum oxide. This result demonstrates a memory concept that is resilient at extreme temperatures and reveals phase separation as the principal mechanism that enables nonvolatile information storage in these electrochemical memory cells.
title Nonvolatile Electrochemical Memory at 600C Enabled by Composition Phase Separation
topic Applied Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16067