Hot-carrier trap-limited transport in switching chalcogenides

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Piccinini, Enrico ^a   Cappelli, Andrea ^b   Buscemi, Fabrizio ^a   Brunetti, Rossella ^b   Ielmini, Daniele ^c   Rudan, Massimo ^a   Jacoboni, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CHALCOGENIDE; CARRIER HEATING; CHALCOGENIDE MATERIALS; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MEMORY SYSTEMS; PHASE CHANGES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SWITCHING MECHANISM; SWITCHING PHENOMENON; THRESHOLD CONDITION; TRAP-LIMITED CONDUCTION;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; POISSON EQUATION;

CHALCOGENIDES;

EID: 84868349856     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4761997     Document Type: Article

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