Unipolar memristive Switching in Bulk Negative Temperature Coefficient Thermosensitive Ceramics

Unipolar memristive Switching in Bulk Negative Temperature Coefficient Thermosensitive Ceramics

A memristive phenomenon was observed in macroscopic bulk negative temperature coefficient nickel monoxide (NiO) ceramic material. Current-voltage characteristics of memristors, pinched hysteretic loops were systematically observed in the Ag/NiO/Ag cell. A thermistor-based model for materials with negative temperature coefficient was proposed to explain the mechanism of the experimental phenomen...

Spark Plasma Sintering of Negative Temperature Coefficient Thermistor Ceramics

Switching dynamics in titanium dioxide memristive devices

Memristive devices are promising components for nanoelectronics with applications in nonvolatile memory and storage, defect-tolerant circuitry, and neuromorphic computing. Bipolar resistive switches based on metal oxides such as TiO2 have been identified as memristive devices primarily based on the “pinched hysteresis loop” that is observed in their current-voltage i-v characteristics. Here we ...

Field-enhanced bulk conductivity and resistive-switching in Ca-doped BiFeO3 ceramics.

The bulk conductivity at room temperature of Ca-doped BiFeO3 ceramics is p-type and increases reversibly by up to 3 orders of magnitude under the influence of a small dc bias voltage in the range ∼3 to 20 V mm(-1). The effect occurs in both grain and grain boundary regions, is isotropic and does not involve creation of filamentary conduction pathways. It is proposed that, by means of capacitive...

NDE for Bulk Defects in Ceramics

A 50 MHz C-scan imaging system is used to find defects in ceramics. The imaging system consists of a microcomputer-controlled scanner for data acquisition and signal conditioning. Synthetic aperture imaging at 50 MHz is carried out to obtain 3-D images of flaws. Image reconstruction is accomplished digitally on a minicomputer. A square synthetic aperture is used to image flaws in flat disc samp...