Statistical modeling of bit distributions in phase change memories

ESSDERC 2009 - Proceedings of the 39th European Solid-State Device Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 157-160

  Ventrice, D ^a   Calderoni, A ^a   Spessot, A ^a   Fantini, P ^a   Sanasi, A ^b   Braga, S ^b   Cabrini, A ^b   Torelli, G ^b  

^a Numonyx   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE; BIT DISTRIBUTIONS; IN-PHASE; MEMORY CELL; MULTILEVEL CELL; NANOSCALE SIZE; PHYSICALLY BASED; STATISTICAL MODELING;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 72849146658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSDERC.2009.5331486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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