The origin of hysteresis in resistive switching in magnetite is Joule heating

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2009-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/0905.3510v1

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245131 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.245131

In many transition metal oxides the electrical resistance is observed to undergo dramatic changes induced by large biases. In magnetite, Fe$_3$O$_4$, below the Verwey temperature, an electric field driven transition to a state of lower resistance was recently found, with hysteretic current-voltage response. We report the results of pulsed electrical conduction measurements in epitaxial magnetite thin films. We show that while the high- to low-resistance transition is driven by electric field, the hysteresis observed in $I-V$ curves results from Joule heating in the low resistance state. The shape of the hysteresis loop depends on pulse parameters, and reduces to a hysteresis-free "jump" of the current provided thermal relaxation is rapid compared to the time between voltage pulses. A simple relaxation time thermal model is proposed that captures the essentials of the hysteresis mechanism.

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