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Materials Science
Germany
2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
126
Citations
74778
World Ranking
390
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Rainer Waser is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. The primary research focus spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and related subfields. The work also engages with Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Polymers and Plastics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main research topics covered by Waser include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Semiconductor materials and devices, Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials, Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides, and Photoreceptor and Optogenetics research.

Frequent publication venues for Waser's work include IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Advanced Electronic Materials, arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Access, and RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen).

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Waser are:

  • Standards for the Characterization of Endurance in Resistive Switching Devices, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Tuning electrochemically driven surface transformation in atomically flat LaNiO3 thin films for enhanced water electrolysis, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Nanoionic memristive phenomena in metal oxides: the valence change mechanism, 2021, Advances In Physics
  • Variability-Aware Modeling of Filamentary Oxide-Based Bipolar Resistive Switching Cells Using SPICE Level Compact Models, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
  • Effect of the Threshold Kinetics on the Filament Relaxation Behavior of Ag-Based Diffusive Memristors, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Waser include:

  • Stephan Menzel
  • Dirk J. Wouters
  • Stefan Wiefels
  • Christopher Bengel
  • Regina Dittmann

The research work primarily concentrates on developing and modeling materials and devices relevant to advanced electronics, with particular attention to resistive switching, memristive phenomena, and nanoionic effects in metal oxides. This is closely connected to broader areas in neural computing and semiconductor technology approaches.

Best Publications

  • Nanoionics-based resistive switching memories

    Rainer Waser;Rainer Waser;Masakazu Aono

  • Redox‐Based Resistive Switching Memories – Nanoionic Mechanisms, Prospects, and Challenges

    Rainer Waser;Rainer Waser;Regina Dittmann;Georgi Staikov;Kristof Szot

  • Switching the electrical resistance of individual dislocations in single-crystalline SrTiO3

    Krzysztof Szot;Wolfgang Speier;Gustav Bihlmayer;Rainer Waser

  • Resistive switching mechanism of TiO2 thin films grown by atomic-layer deposition

    B. J. Choi;Doo Seok Jeong;S. K. Kim;C. Rohde

  • Complementary resistive switches for passive nanocrossbar memories

    Eike Linn;Roland Rosezin;Carsten Kügeler;Rainer Waser;Rainer Waser

  • Nanoelectronics and Information Technology: Advanced Electronic Materials and Novel Devices

    Rainer Waser

  • Nanoelectronics and Information Technology

    Rainer Waser

  • Electrochemical metallization memories—fundamentals, applications, prospects

    Ilia Valov;Rainer Waser;Rainer Waser;John R Jameson;Michael N Kozicki

  • Electrical properties of the grain boundaries of oxygen ion conductors: Acceptor-doped zirconia and ceria

    Xin Guo;Xin Guo;Rainer Waser

  • dc Electrical Degradation of Perovskite-Type Titanates: I, Ceramics

    Rainer Waser;Tudor Baiatu;Karl-Heinz Härdtl

  • Electrochemical dynamics of nanoscale metallic inclusions in dielectrics

    Yuchao Yang;Peng Gao;Peng Gao;Linze Li;Xiaoqing Pan

  • Nanoscale cation motion in TaO x , HfO x and TiO x memristive systems

    Anja Wedig;Michael Luebben;Deok Yong Cho;Marco Moors

  • Nanobatteries in redox-based resistive switches require extension of memristor theory

    I. Valov;E. Linn;S. Tappertzhofen;S. Schmelzer

  • Chemical solution deposition of electronic oxide films

    Robert W. Schwartz;Theodor Schneller;Rainer Waser;Rainer Waser

  • Bipolar and Unipolar Resistive Switching in Cu-Doped $ \hbox{SiO}_{2}$

    C. Schindler;S.C.P. Thermadam;R. Waser;M.N. Kozicki

  • dc Electrical Degradation of Perovskite‐Type Titanates: III, A Model of the Mechanism

    Tudor Baiatu;Rainer Waser;Karl-Heinz Härdtl

  • The dielectric response as a function of temperature and film thickness of fiber-textured (Ba,Sr)TiO3 thin films grown by chemical vapor deposition

    Cem Basceri;S. K. Streiffer;Angus I. Kingon;R. Waser

  • Bulk Conductivity and Defect Chemistry of Acceptor‐Doped Strontium Titanate in the Quenched State

    Rainer Waser

  • Theoretical current-voltage characteristics of ferroelectric tunnel junctions

    H. Kohlstedt;H. Kohlstedt;N. A. Pertsev;N. A. Pertsev;J. Rodríguez Contreras;R. Waser;R. Waser

  • Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films

    Chun-Lin Jia;Valanoor Nagarajan;Jia-Qing He;Lothar Houben

  • Leakage currents in Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 thin films for ultrahigh-density dynamic random access memories

    G. W. Dietz;M. Schumacher;R. Waser;S. K. Streiffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Menzel
Stephan Menzel Forschungszentrum Jülich
Ulrich Böttger
Ulrich Böttger RWTH Aachen University
Ilia Valov
Ilia Valov RWTH Aachen University
Regina Dittmann
Regina Dittmann Forschungszentrum Jülich
Hermann Kohlstedt
Hermann Kohlstedt Kiel University
Dirk Wouters
Dirk Wouters RWTH Aachen University
Chun-Lin Jia
Chun-Lin Jia Xi'an Jiaotong University
Joachim Mayer
Joachim Mayer RWTH Aachen University
Claus M. Schneider
Claus M. Schneider Forschungszentrum Jülich
Cheol Seong Hwang
Cheol Seong Hwang Seoul National University

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