Resistive Switching Conducting Filament Electroformation with an Electrothermal Phase Field Method

A phase field method self-consistently coupled to continuum heat transport and charge conservation is used to simulate conducting filament dynamical evolution and nanostructure of electroformed resistive switching thin films. Our method does not require a pre-defined idealized conducting filament, a...

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Main Authors Sevic, John F, Kobayashi, Nobuhiko P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 26.07.2023
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Physics - Applied Physics
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Summary:A phase field method self-consistently coupled to continuum heat transport and charge conservation is used to simulate conducting filament dynamical evolution and nanostructure of electroformed resistive switching thin films. Our method does not require a pre-defined idealized conducting filament, as previous methods do, instead treating its dynamical evolution as a stochastic diffuse interface problem subject to a variational principle. Our simulation results agree well with available experimental observations, correctly reproducing electroformed conducting filament nanostructure exhibited by a variety of resistive switching thin films.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2307.14582