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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2012
Wei Ti Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Chakravarthy Gopalan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yi MA, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeffrey Shields, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Philippe Blanchard, Moigny sur Ecole, FR;
John Ross Jameson, Burlingame, CA (US);
Foroozan Sarah Koushan, San Jose, CA (US);
Janet Wang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mark Kellam, Siler City, NC (US);
Wei Ti Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Chakravarthy Gopalan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yi Ma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeffrey Shields, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Philippe Blanchard, Moigny sur Ecole, FR;
John Ross Jameson, Burlingame, CA (US);
Foroozan Sarah Koushan, San Jose, CA (US);
Janet Wang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mark Kellam, Siler City, NC (US);
Adesto Technologies France SARL, Paris, FR;
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a resistive switching device comprises a bottom electrode, a switching layer disposed over the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed over the switching layer. The top electrode comprises an alloy of a memory metal and an alloying element. The top electrode provides a source of the memory metal. The memory metal is configured to change a state of the switching layer.