Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Symmetrically tunable electrical resistor
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Application No.: US15848085Application Date: 2017-12-20
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Publication No.: US10714242B2Publication Date: 2020-07-14
- Inventor: Stefan Abel , Jean Fompeyrine , Johannes Gooth , Bernd Gotsmann , Fabian Menges
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Michael A. Petrocelli
- Main IPC: H01C10/16
- IPC: H01C10/16 ; H01L27/08 ; H01C7/00 ; H01C10/14 ; H01L49/02 ; G11C11/22 ; H01C17/26 ; H01L21/66

Abstract:
An electrical resistor element, system, and method related thereto, wherein the electrical resistor element includes a tunable resistance. The electrical resistor element comprises a first contact electrode, a second contact electrode and a ferroelectric layer arranged between the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode. The ferroelectric layer comprises a first area having a first polarization direction and a second area having a second polarization direction. The first polarization direction is different to the second polarization direction. The ferroelectric layer further comprises a domain wall between the first area and the second area. The electrical resistor element further comprises a first pinning element configured to stabilize the first polarization direction of the ferroelectric layer. The electrical resistor element further comprises a control circuit configured to tune the resistance of the electrical resistor element by applying electrical pulses to the ferroelectric layer such that the ferroelectric domain wall is moved.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190189311A1 TUNABLE ELECTRICAL RESISTOR Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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