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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2023
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Kangguo Cheng, Schenectady, NY (US);
Juntao Li, Cohoes, NY (US);
Arthur Roy Gasasira, Halfmoon, NY (US);
Louis Zuoguang Liu, Schenectady, NY (US);
Amlan Majumdar, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The density of deuterium or hydrogen within phase change material (PCM) of a PCM memory cell reduces the active defects in the amorphous phase of the PCM by passivating dangling bonds, which results in the PCM becoming easier to nucleate during the SET process of the PCM memory cell. Resultingly, the addition of deuterium or hydrogen within the PCM relatively increases the SET programming voltage window of the PCM memory cell compared with a similar PCM cell without.