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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John Ross Jameson, III, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey Allan Shields, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kuei-Chang Tsai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory element can include a first electrode; at least one switching layer formed over the first electrode; a second electrode layer; and at least one conductive cap layer formed over the second electrode layer having substantially no grain boundaries extending through to the second electrode layer; wherein the at least one switching layer is programmable between different impedance states by application of electric fields via that first and second electrode. Methods of forming such memory elements are also disclosed.