Observation of a Ag protrusion on a Ag2S island using a scanning tunneling microscope

Takeo Ohno; Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

doi:10.1016/j.rinp.2015.08.004

Results in Physics (Jan 2015)

Observation of a Ag protrusion on a Ag2S island using a scanning tunneling microscope

Takeo Ohno,
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Affiliations

Takeo Ohno: WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa: Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2015.08.004
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. C
pp. 182 – 183

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A silver sulfide (Ag2S) island as an ionic conductor in resistive switching memories was formed and a protrusion of silver from the Ag2S formed by an electrochemical reaction was observed using a scanning tunneling microscope.

Published in Results in Physics

ISSN: 2211-3797 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
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