Chalcogenide PCM: A memory technology for next decade

Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bez, Roberto ^a  

^a Numonyx   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD APPLICATION; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; MEMORY TECHNOLOGY; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; PHASE-CHANGE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGY MATURITY;

DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ELECTRON DEVICES; PULSE CODE MODULATION; TECHNOLOGY;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 77952417289     PISSN: 01631918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2009.5424415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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