Thermal modeling of resistive switching devices

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1938-1943

  Ramu, Ashok T ^a   Strukov, Dmitri B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Fourier series Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solution; heat equation; resistive switching device

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONDUCTIVE FILAMENTS; DEVICE OPTIMIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION; HEAT EQUATION; METALLIC ELECTRODES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE); RESISTIVE SWITCHING DEVICES;

ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOURIER SERIES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84878133234     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2013.2256138     Document Type: Article

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