After hard drives-what comes next?

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3406-3413

  Kryder, Mark H ^a   Kim, Chang Soo ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging alternative nonvolatile memory; Hard disk drive; NAND flash

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DRIVES; FLASH MEMORY; LITHOGRAPHY; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; SOLID STATE DEVICE STRUCTURES;

ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; EMERGING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY TECHNOLOGY; HARD DISK DRIVE; NAND FLASH; NON-VOLATILE MEMORY; PHASE CHANGE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (PCRAM); SOLID STATE TECHNOLOGY; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 70350608599     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024163     Document Type: Article

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