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Effect of Ion Diffusion on Switching Voltage of Solid-Electrolyte Nanometer Switch

Naoki Banno^1,2, Toshitsugu Sakamoto^1,2, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa^2,3, Kazuya Terabe^2,3 and Masakazu Aono^2,3

(Received September 30, 2005; accepted November 15, 2005; published online April 25, 2006)

A solid electrolyte switch turns on or off when a metallic bridge is formed or dissolved respectively in the solid electrolyte (here we use Cu_2-αS). For logic applications, the switching voltage (<0.3 V) should be larger than the operating voltage of the logic circuit (about 1 V). We reveal that the switching voltage is mainly affected by Cu⁺ ionic transport in Cu_2-αS and that a solid electrolyte with an ion diffusion coefficient smaller than that of Cu_2-αS by several tens of orders of magnitude makes it possible to increase the switching voltage to 1 V.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/45/3666/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.45.3666

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