Mott resistive switching initiated by topological defects.


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Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
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Date de publication:
31 Oct 2024
Historique:
received: 16 04 2024
accepted: 15 10 2024
medline: 1 11 2024
pubmed: 1 11 2024
entrez: 1 11 2024
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Résumé

Avalanche resistive switching is the fundamental process that triggers the sudden change of the electrical properties in solid-state devices under the action of intense electric fields. Despite its relevance for information processing, ultrafast electronics, neuromorphic devices, resistive memories and brain-inspired computation, the nature of the local stochastic fluctuations that drive the formation of metallic regions within the insulating state has remained hidden. Here, using operando X-ray nano-imaging, we have captured the origin of resistive switching in a V

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Auteurs

Alessandra Milloch (A)

Department of Mathematics and Physics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy. alessandra.milloch@unicatt.it.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. alessandra.milloch@unicatt.it.
ILAMP (Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy. alessandra.milloch@unicatt.it.

Ignacio Figueruelo-Campanero (I)

IMDEA Nanociencia, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. ignacio.figueruelo@imdea.org.
Facultad Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. ignacio.figueruelo@imdea.org.

Wei-Fan Hsu (WF)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Selene Mor (S)

Department of Mathematics and Physics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy.
ILAMP (Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy.

Simon Mellaerts (S)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Francesco Maccherozzi (F)

Diamond Light Source, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK.

Larissa S I Veiga (LSI)

Diamond Light Source, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK.

Sarnjeet S Dhesi (SS)

Diamond Light Source, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK.

Mauro Spera (M)

Department of Mathematics and Physics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy.

Jin Won Seo (JW)

Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Jean-Pierre Locquet (JP)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Michele Fabrizio (M)

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, Trieste, Italy.

Mariela Menghini (M)

IMDEA Nanociencia, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.

Claudio Giannetti (C)

Department of Mathematics and Physics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy. claudio.giannetti@unicatt.it.
ILAMP (Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy. claudio.giannetti@unicatt.it.
CNR-INO (National Institute of Optics), via Branze 45, Brescia, Italy. claudio.giannetti@unicatt.it.

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