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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H01L 45/00 (2006.01); H01L 43/02 (2006.01); H01L 27/22 (2006.01); H01L 43/10 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/02 (2013.01); G11C 11/161 (2013.01); G11C 11/1659 (2013.01); H01L 27/228 (2013.01); H01L 43/10 (2013.01); G11C 13/003 (2013.01); G11C 2213/76 (2013.01);
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.


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