Characteristics of Synaptic Function of Mesoporous Silica–Titania and Mesoporous Titania Lateral Electrode Devices

In this paper, we have fabricated non-volatile memory resistive switching (RS) devices and analyzed analog memristive characteristics using lateral electrodes with mesoporous silica–titania (meso-ST) and mesoporous titania (meso-T) layers. For the planar-type device having two parallel electrodes, current–voltage (I–V) curves and pulse-driven current changes could reveal successful long-term potentiation (LTP) along with long-term depression (LTD), respectively, by the RS active mesoporous two layers for 20~100 μm length. Through mechanism characterization using chemical analysis, non-filamental memristive behavior unlike the conventional metal electroforming was identified. Additionally, high performance of the synaptic operations could be also accomplished such that a high current of 10−6 Amp level could occur despite a wide electrode spacing and short pulse spike biases under ambient condition with moderate humidity (RH 30~50%). Moreover, it was confirmed that rectifying characteristics were observed during the I–V measurement, which was a representative feature of dual functionality of selection diode and the analog RS device for both meso-ST and meso-T devices. The memristive and synaptic functions along with the rectification property could facilitate a chance of potential implementation of the meso-ST and meso-T devices to neuromorphic electronics platform.