Effects of alloy composition on multilevel operation in self-heating phase change memories

2011 3rd IEEE International Memory Workshop, IMW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Braga, S ^a   Pashkov, N ^b   Perniola, L ^b   Fantini, A ^b   Cabrini, A ^a   Torelli, G ^a   Sousa, V ^b   De Salvo, B ^b   Reimbold, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

chalcogenide alloys; multilevel storage; phase change materials; Phase change memories; self heating

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; ALLOY COMPOSITIONS; BIT DENSITY; CHALCOGENIDE ALLOY; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; MULTILEVEL PROGRAMMING; MULTILEVEL STORAGE; PHASE CHANGE; SCALING PROPERTIES; SELF-HEATING; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS;

HEATING;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 79959936440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMW.2011.5873226     Document Type: Article

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