Cycle-to-cycle switching endurance variability in vertically aligned nanocrystalline molybdenum disulfide: computational insights

Abstract

We propose a model to depict the endurance test results of a resistive switching device with vertically oriented layers of nanocrystalline transition metal dichalcogenide layers with respect to the substrate. We aim to relate and understand the endurance test results in the literature with our model, which is tested using density functional theory simulations. We conclude a relation between endurance test results and skin effect dominated alternating electric current resistance and surface resistance. These results are important to manipulate and understand the reliability and accuracy of cycle-to-cycle variations in the endurance test results.