標題: | Overview of emerging nonvolatile memory technologies |
作者: | Meena, Jagan Singh Sze, Simon Min Chand, Umesh Tseng, Tseung-Yuen 電子工程學系及電子研究所 Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics |
關鍵字: | Emerging nonvolatile memory technologies;Magnetic storage;Market memory technologies;Memristors;Phase change memories;Random-access storage;Flash memory technologies;Three-dimensional memory;Transparent memory;Unified memory |
公開日期: | 25-Sep-2014 |
摘要: | Nonvolatile memory technologies in Si-based electronics date back to the 1990s. Ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) was one of the most promising devices replacing the conventional Flash memory facing physical scaling limitations at those times. A variant of charge storage memory referred to as Flash memory is widely used in consumer electronic products such as cell phones and music players while NAND Flash-based solid-state disks (SSDs) are increasingly displacing hard disk drives as the primary storage device in laptops, desktops, and even data centers. The integration limit of Flash memories is approaching, and many new types of memory to replace conventional Flash memories have been proposed. Emerging memory technologies promise new memories to store more data at less cost than the expensive-to-build silicon chips used by popular consumer gadgets including digital cameras, cell phones and portable music players. They are being investigated and lead to the future as potential alternatives to existing memories in future computing systems. Emerging nonvolatile memory technologies such as magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), spin-transfer torque random-access memory (STT-RAM), ferroelectric random-access memory (FeRAM), phase-change memory (PCM), and resistive random-access memory (RRAM) combine the speed of static random-access memory (SRAM), the density of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), and the nonvolatility of Flash memory and so become very attractive as another possibility for future memory hierarchies. Many other new classes of emerging memory technologies such as transparent and plastic, three-dimensional (3-D), and quantum dot memory technologies have also gained tremendous popularity in recent years. Subsequently, not an exaggeration to say that computer memory could soon earn the ultimate commercial validation for commercial scale-up and production the cheap plastic knockoff. Therefore, this review is devoted to the rapidly developing new class of memory technologies and scaling of scientific procedures based on an investigation of recent progress in advanced Flash memory devices. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-9-526 http://hdl.handle.net/11536/25370 |
ISSN: | 1556-276X |
DOI: | 10.1186/1556-276X-9-526 |
期刊: | NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS |
Volume: | 9 |
起始頁: | 0 |
結束頁: | 0 |
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