Overview of candidate device technologies for storage-class memory

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 52, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 449-464

  Burr, Geoffrey W ^a   Kurdi, Bülent N ^a   Scott, J Campbell ^a   Lam, Chung H ^b   Gopalakrishnan, Kailash ^a   Shenoy, Rohit S ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 55449122987     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.524.0449     Document Type: Review

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