A unified model of nucleation switching

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Nardone, M ^a   Karpov, V G ^a   Jackson, D C S ^b   Karpov, I V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEATION;

HOLDING VOLTAGES; INDUCED NUCLEATIONS; MATERIAL PARAMETERS; PHASE-CHANGE MEMORIES; UNIFIED MODELS;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 62549147803     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3100779     Document Type: Article

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