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[21a-B204-5] Anomalous durability of (001) plane against oxygen vacancy injection at electrode/rutile-TiO2 interfaces
Keywords:resistive switching
We have investigated the electro-coloration of a rutile TiO2 single crystal by the voltage-bias annealing in dry air between a point cathode and a flat anode. The electro-coloration is due to the conductive oxygen vacancy (VO) filament that grows from the cathode/TiO2 interface to mm size. We proposed that the growth mechanism of this macroscopic size VO filament is the oxygen (O2−) transfer reaction at the anode interface followed by the thermally assisted-electric field-induced VO diffusion to the cathode. It was found that VO is not injected into the anode/(001) interface in the oxygen transfer reaction. The proposed mechanism was examined by the surface-sensitive TOF-SIMS and the bulk-sensitive dynamic SIMS.