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Physics and technology of emerging non-volatile memories

Pirovano, 2017

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2219182493664214794
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2017
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In Search of the Next Memory: Inside the Circuitry from the Oldest to the Emerging Non-Volatile Memories

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Although flash technology has clearly demonstrated its capability to shrink the cell size according to Moore's law, further reduction of the dimension is facing fundamental physical limits, and it is demanding technological developments that are making the cell scaling less …

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