Complementary resistive switches for passive nanocrossbar memories

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 403-406

  Linn, Eike ^a,b   Rosezin, Roland ^b   Kügeler, Carsten ^b   Waser, Rainer ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; DATA TRANSFER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GREEN COMPUTING; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SWITCHES;

COMPLEMENTARY RESISTIVE SWITCHES; COMPUTER PERFORMANCE; CROSSBAR ARCHITECTURE; CROSSBAR ARRAYS; MEMORY DENSITY; NON-VOLATILE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC; REDUCTION IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 77951622926     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2748     Document Type: Article

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