RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 An experimental and simulation study of the role of thermal effects on variability in TiN/Ti/HfO2/W resistive switching nonlinear devices A1 Maldonado, D. A1 Aguilera-Pedregosa, C. A1 Vinuesa Sanz, Guillermo A1 García, H. A1 Dueñas Carazo, Salvador A1 Castán Lanaspa, María Helena A1 Aldana, S. A1 González, M.B. A1 Moreno, E. A1 Jiménez-Molinos, F. A1 Campabadal, F. A1 Roldán, J.B. K1 Resistive switching memory K1 RRAM K1 Temperature characterization K1 Simulation K1 Variability K1 Modeling K1 Kinetic Monte Carlo K1 Series resistance AB An in-depth simulation and experimental study has been performed to analyze thermal effects on the variability of resistive memories. Kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations, that reproduce well the nonlinearity and stochasticity of resistive switching devices, have been employed to explain the experimental results. The series resistance and the transition voltages and currents have been extracted from devices based on the TiN/Ti/HfO2/W stack we have fabricated and measured at temperatures ranging from 77 K to 350 K. We observed that the variability for all the magnitudes analyzed was much higher at low temperatures. In the kMC simulations, we obtained conductive filaments (CFs) with less compactness at low temperatures. This led us to explain the higher variability, based on the variations of the CF morphology and density seen at low temperatures. PB ELSEVIER SN 0960-0779 YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66071 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66071 LA spa NO Volume 160, July 2022, 112247 DS UVaDOC RD 22-nov-2024