Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hajun Sung

Changseung Lee

Dongho Ahn

Wooyoung Yang

Bonwon Koo

Minwoo Choi

Kiyeon Yang

Kwangmin Park

Chungman Kim

Yongyoung Park

Young Jae Kang

Youngjae Kang

Segab Kwon

A phase-change memory structure includes lower and upper electrodes spaced apart from each other, and a phase-change material stack between the lower and upper electrodes. The phase-change material stack includes a plurality of phase-change layers, at least two phase-change layers of the plurality of phase-change layers have different phase-change temperatures, and a plurality of barrier layers between the plurality of phase-change layers The at least two phase-change layers of the plurality of phase-change layers have different thicknesses.

Phase-change memory structure and phase-change memory device including the same

Provided are a switching device and a memory device including the switching device. The switching device includes first and second electrodes, and a switching material layer provided between the first and second electrodes and including a chalcogenide. The switching material layer includes a core portion and a shell portion covering a side surface of the core portion. The switching layer includes a material having an electrical resistance greater than an electrical resistance of the core portion, for example in at least one of the core portion or the shell portion.

Switching device and memory device including the same

A memory device includes a memory cell including a selection layer and a phase change material layer, and a controller, wherein the selection layer includes a switching material, the phase change material layer includes a phase change material, and the controller is configured to apply a write pulse to the selection layer and the phase change material layer and control a polarity, a peak value, and a shape of the write pulse.

Memory device including switching material and phase change material

A chalcogen compound layer exhibiting ovonic threshold switching characteristics, a switching device, a semiconductor device, and/or a semiconductor apparatus including the same are provided. The switching device and/or the semiconductor device may include two or more chalcogen compound layers having different energy band gaps. Alternatively, the switching device and/or semiconductor device may include a chalcogen compound layer having a concentration gradient of an element of boron (B), aluminum (Al), scandium (Sc), manganese (Mn), strontium (Sr), and/or indium (In) in a thickness direction thereof. The switching device and/or a semiconductor device may exhibit stable switching characteristics while having a low off-current value (leakage current value).

Semiconductor device including chalcogen compound and semiconductor apparatus including the same

Semiconductor device including layers with different chalcogen compounds and semiconductor apparatus including the same

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