Electromechanical diode cell for cross-point nonvolatile memory arrays

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-133

  Kwon, Wookhyun ^a   Jeon, Jaeseok ^a   Hutin, Louis ^a   Liu, Tsu Jae King ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross bar memory; cross point memory; electro mechanical device; nonvolatile memory

Indexed keywords

CROSS-BAR MEMORIES; CROSS-POINT MEMORY; MEMORY ARRAY; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; NONVOLATILE MEMORY CELLS; PROTOTYPE CELLS; RETENTION CHARACTERISTICS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

CELLS;

EID: 84856254506     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2011.2174191     Document Type: Article

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