Recent progress in phase-change memory technology

GW Burr, MJ Brightsky, A Sebastian… - IEEE Journal on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We survey progress in the PCM field over the past five years, ranging from large-scale PCM
demonstrations to materials improvements for high–temperature retention and faster …

Phase change materials

S Raoux - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Phase change materials (PCMs) can exist in at least two different phases (an amorphous
and one or more crystalline phases), and they can be switched repeatedly between these …

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 …

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 …

Electrical conduction in chalcogenide glasses of phase change memory

M Nardone, M Simon, IV Karpov… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Amorphous chalcogenides have been extensively studied over the last half century due to
their application in rewritable optical data storage and in non-volatile phase change memory …

What will come after V‐NAND—vertical resistive switching memory?

KJ Yoon, Y Kim, CS Hwang - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The NAND flash memory serves as the key enabler of the flourishing of portable handheld
information devices, such as the cellular phone. The recent upsurge in the sales of vertical …

Yttrium-Doped Sb2Te3: A Promising Material for Phase-Change Memory

Z Li, C Si, J Zhou, H Xu, Z Sun - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Sb2Te3 exhibits outstanding performance among the candidate materials for phase-change
memory; nevertheless, its low electrical resistivity and thermal stability hinder its practical …

Circuit and system of using FinFET for building programmable resistive devices

SC Chung - US Patent 8,848,423, 2014 - Google Patents
FET technologies can be used as program selectors or One Time Programmable (OTP)
element in a programmable resis tive device. Such as interconnect fuse, contact/via fuse …

Exploiting process variations and programming sensitivity of phase change memory for reconfigurable physical unclonable functions

L Zhang, ZH Kong, CH Chang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical unclonable function (PUF) leverages the immensely complex and irreproducible
nature of physical structures to achieve device authentication and secret information …

Nonvolatile memory with extremely low-leakage indium-gallium-zinc-oxide thin-film transistor

H Inoue, T Matsuzaki, S Nagatsuka… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging nonvolatile memory with an oxide–semiconductor-based thin-film transistor (TFT)
using indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) was developed. The memory is called nonvolatile …