Evidence of field induced nucleation in phase change memory

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Karpov, I V ^a   Mitra, M ^a   Kau, D ^a   Spadini, G ^a   Kryukov, Y A ^b   Karpov, V G ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; SWITCHING; TIME DELAY;

FIELD DEPENDENT NUCLEATION BARRIER; STANDARD NUCLEATION; SWITCHING STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 43049105346     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2917583     Document Type: Article

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