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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2022
Applicant:
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Huai-Yu Cheng, White Plains, NY (US);
Alexander Grun, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Assignee:
MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H10B 63/00 (2023.01); H10N 70/00 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H10B 63/24 (2023.02); H10B 63/84 (2023.02); H10N 70/021 (2023.02); H10N 70/841 (2023.02);
Abstract
A switching device is provided. The device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a multi-layer ovonic threshold switch (OTS) between the first and second electrodes, the multi-layer OTS including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer and the second layer are different compositions, and the second layer includes germanium Ge and nitrogen N. The switching device can be thermally stable to temperatures over 600° C. Further, the switching device can be used in three-dimensional (3D) cross-point memory.