Compact thermal model for vertical nanowire phase-change memory cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1523-1528

  Chen, I Ru ^a   Pop, Eric ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact model; GST nanowire (NW); Phasechange memory (PCM); Thermal transport

Indexed keywords

CELL DIMENSIONS; COMPACT MODEL; COMPACT THERMAL MODELS; CYLINDRICAL NANOWIRES; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GST NANOWIRE (NW); IMPROVED COMPUTATION; MATERIAL PROPERTY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHASECHANGE MEMORY (PCM); PROGRAMMING CURRENTS; THERMAL BOUNDARY RESISTANCE; THERMAL TRANSPORT; TIME-SCALE;

CELL MEMBRANES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NANOWIRES; POWDERS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; SYSTEM THEORY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 67650147971     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2021364     Document Type: Article

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