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Title: Evolutionary Optimization of a Charge Transfer Ionic Potential Model for Ta/Ta-Oxide Heterointerfaces

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Heterostructures of tantalum and its oxide are of tremendous technological interest for a myriad of technological applications, including electronics, thermal management, catalysis and biochemistry. In particular, local oxygen stoichiometry variation in TaOx memristors comprising of thermodynamically stable metallic (Ta) and insulating oxide (Ta2O5) have been shown to result in fast switching on the subnanosecond timescale over a billion cycles. This rapid switching opens up the potential for advanced functional platforms such as stateful logic operations and neuromorphic computation. Despite its broad importance, an atomistic scale understanding of oxygen stoichiometry variation across Ta/TaOx heterointerfaces, such as during early stages of oxidation and oxide growth, is not well understood. This is mainly due to the lack of a unified interatomic potential model for tantalum oxides that can accurately describe metallic (Ta), ionic (TaOx) as well as mixed (Ta/TaOx interfaces) bonding environments simultaneously. To address this challenge, we introduce a Charge Transfer Ionic Potential (CTIP) model for Ta/Ta-oxide system by training against lattice parameters, cohesive energies, equations of state (EOS), elastic properties, and surface energies of the various experimentally observed Ta2O5 polymorphs (hexagonal, orthorhombic and monoclinic) obtained from density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The best CTIP parameters are determined by employing a globalmore » optimization scheme driven by genetic algorithms followed by local Simplex optimization. Our newly developed CTIP potential accurately predicts structure, thermodynamics, energetic ordering of polymorphs, as well as elastic and surface properties of both Ta and Ta2O5, in excellent agreement with DFT calculations and experiments. We employ our newly parameterized CTIP potential to investigate the early stages of oxidation and atomic scale mechanisms associated with oxide growth on Ta surface at various temperatures. Furthermore, the CTIP potential developed in this work is an invaluable tool to investigate atomic-scale mechanisms and transport phenomena underlying the response of Ta/TaOx interfaces to external stimuli (e.g, temperature, pressure, strain, electric field etc.), as well as other interesting dynamical phenomena including the physics of switching dynamics in TaOx based memristors and neuromorphic devices.« less

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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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OSTI Identifier:
1372401
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
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Journal Name:
Chemistry of Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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Sasikumar, Kiran, Narayanan, Badri, Cherukara, Mathew, Kinaci, Alper, Sen, Fatih G., Gray, Stephen K., Chan, Maria K. Y., and Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S. Evolutionary Optimization of a Charge Transfer Ionic Potential Model for Ta/Ta-Oxide Heterointerfaces. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00312.
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Sasikumar, Kiran, Narayanan, Badri, Cherukara, Mathew, Kinaci, Alper, Sen, Fatih G., Gray, Stephen K., Chan, Maria K. Y., & Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S. Evolutionary Optimization of a Charge Transfer Ionic Potential Model for Ta/Ta-Oxide Heterointerfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00312
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Sasikumar, Kiran, Narayanan, Badri, Cherukara, Mathew, Kinaci, Alper, Sen, Fatih G., Gray, Stephen K., Chan, Maria K. Y., and Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S. Sun . "Evolutionary Optimization of a Charge Transfer Ionic Potential Model for Ta/Ta-Oxide Heterointerfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00312. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1372401.
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@article{osti_1372401,
title = {Evolutionary Optimization of a Charge Transfer Ionic Potential Model for Ta/Ta-Oxide Heterointerfaces},
author = {Sasikumar, Kiran and Narayanan, Badri and Cherukara, Mathew and Kinaci, Alper and Sen, Fatih G. and Gray, Stephen K. and Chan, Maria K. Y. and Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S.},
abstractNote = {Heterostructures of tantalum and its oxide are of tremendous technological interest for a myriad of technological applications, including electronics, thermal management, catalysis and biochemistry. In particular, local oxygen stoichiometry variation in TaOx memristors comprising of thermodynamically stable metallic (Ta) and insulating oxide (Ta2O5) have been shown to result in fast switching on the subnanosecond timescale over a billion cycles. This rapid switching opens up the potential for advanced functional platforms such as stateful logic operations and neuromorphic computation. Despite its broad importance, an atomistic scale understanding of oxygen stoichiometry variation across Ta/TaOx heterointerfaces, such as during early stages of oxidation and oxide growth, is not well understood. This is mainly due to the lack of a unified interatomic potential model for tantalum oxides that can accurately describe metallic (Ta), ionic (TaOx) as well as mixed (Ta/TaOx interfaces) bonding environments simultaneously. To address this challenge, we introduce a Charge Transfer Ionic Potential (CTIP) model for Ta/Ta-oxide system by training against lattice parameters, cohesive energies, equations of state (EOS), elastic properties, and surface energies of the various experimentally observed Ta2O5 polymorphs (hexagonal, orthorhombic and monoclinic) obtained from density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The best CTIP parameters are determined by employing a global optimization scheme driven by genetic algorithms followed by local Simplex optimization. Our newly developed CTIP potential accurately predicts structure, thermodynamics, energetic ordering of polymorphs, as well as elastic and surface properties of both Ta and Ta2O5, in excellent agreement with DFT calculations and experiments. We employ our newly parameterized CTIP potential to investigate the early stages of oxidation and atomic scale mechanisms associated with oxide growth on Ta surface at various temperatures. Furthermore, the CTIP potential developed in this work is an invaluable tool to investigate atomic-scale mechanisms and transport phenomena underlying the response of Ta/TaOx interfaces to external stimuli (e.g, temperature, pressure, strain, electric field etc.), as well as other interesting dynamical phenomena including the physics of switching dynamics in TaOx based memristors and neuromorphic devices.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00312},
journal = {Chemistry of Materials},
number = 8,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Sun Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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