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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Elijah V. Karpov, Portland, OR (US);
Ravi Pillarisetty, Portland, OR (US);
Prashant Majhi, San Jose, CA (US);
James S. Clarke, Portland, OR (US);
Uday Shah, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a memory array comprising: a selector switch including top and bottom electrodes, a metal layer, and a solid electrolyte layer; a memory cell in series with the selector switch; bit and write lines, wherein (a) (i) the top electrode couples to one of the bit and write lines and the bottom electrode couples to another of the bit and write lines, and (a) (ii) the memory cell is between one of the top and bottom electrodes and one of the bit and write lines; wherein (b) (i) the metal layer includes silver (Ag), and (b) (ii) Ag ions from the metal layer form a conductive path in the SE layer when the top electrode is biased and disband the conductive path when the top electrode is not biased. Other embodiments Electrode are described herein.