Evaluation of performance and perspectives of nanocrystal flash memories based on 3d quantum modeling

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 140-145

  Coli, P ^a   Iannaccone, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FLASH MEMORY; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POISSON EQUATION; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

ELECTRIC BEHAVIOR; FLOATING GATES; NANOCRYSTAL FLASH MEMORY; NANOCRYSTAL SIZES; POISSON-SCHRODINGER EQUATION; QUANTUM MODELING; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLVERS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 64349119270     PISSN: 19449399     EISSN: 19449380     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2001.966408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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