A review of emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies and applications

A Chen - Solid-State Electronics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper will review emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, with the focus on
phase change memory (PCM), spin-transfer-torque random-access-memory (STTRAM) …

Chalcogenide ovonic threshold switching selector

Z Zhao, S Clima, D Garbin, R Degraeve, G Pourtois… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Today's explosion of data urgently requires memory technologies capable of storing large
volumes of data in shorter time frames, a feat unattainable with Flash or DRAM. Intel Optane …

Mnemosyne: Lightweight persistent memory

H Volos, AJ Tack, MM Swift - ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
New storage-class memory (SCM) technologies, such as phase-change memory, STT-RAM,
and memristors, promise user-level access to non-volatile storage through regular memory …

Architecting phase change memory as a scalable dram alternative

BC Lee, E Ipek, O Mutlu, D Burger - Proceedings of the 36th annual …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Memory scaling is in jeopardy as charge storage and sensing mechanisms become less
reliable for prevalent memory technologies, such as DRAM. In contrast, phase change …

Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory

J Condit, EB Nightingale, C Frost, E Ipek… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is
accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent …

Phase-change technology and the future of main memory

BC Lee, P Zhou, J Yang, Y Zhang, B Zhao, E Ipek… - IEEE micro, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase-change may enable continued scaling of main memories, but PCM has higher
access latencies, incurs higher power costs, and wears out more quickly than DRAM. This …

PDRAM: A hybrid PRAM and DRAM main memory system

G Dhiman, R Ayoub, T Rosing - Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose PDRAM, a novel energy efficient main memory architecture based
on phase change random access memory (PRAM) and DRAM. The paper explores the …

Programmable resistive device and memory using diode as selector

SC Chung - US Patent 9,818,478, 2017 - Google Patents
Building programmable resistive devices in contact holes at the crossover of a plurality of
conductor lines in more than two vertical layers is disclosed. There are plurality of first …

Reliability study of phase-change nonvolatile memories

A Pirovano, A Redaelli, F Pellizzer… - … on Device and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A detailed investigation of the reliability aspects in nonvolatile phase-change memories
(PCM) is presented, covering the basic aspects related to high density array NVM, ie, data …

A bipolar-selected phase change memory featuring multi-level cell storage

F Bedeschi, R Fackenthal, C Resta… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a 90-nm 128-Mcell non-volatile memory based on phase-change
Ge_2\mathchar"707BSb_2\mathchar"707BTe_5 alloy is presented. Memory cells are bipolar …