Charge-Trapping Non-Volatile Memories Volume 2--Emerging Materials a

This book describes the technology of charge-trapping non-volatile memories and their uses. The authors explain the device physics of each device architecture and provide a concrete description of the materials involved and the fundamental properties of t

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ChargeTrapping Non-Volatile Memories Volume 2—Emerging Materials and Structures

Charge-Trapping Non-Volatile Memories

Panagiotis Dimitrakis Editor

Charge-Trapping Non-Volatile Memories Volume 2—Emerging Materials and Structures

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Editor Panagiotis Dimitrakis Department of Microelectronics Institute of Advanced Materials Athens Greece

ISBN 978-3-319-48703-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48705-2

ISBN 978-3-319-48705-2

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Contents

1 Materials and Device Reliability in SONOS Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . Krishnaswamy Ramkumar 2 Charge-Trap-Non-volatile Memory and Focus on Flexible Flash Memory Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Konstantina Saranti and Shashi Paul 3 Hybrid Memories Based on Redox Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nikolaos Glezos

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4 Organic Floating Gate Memory Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 S. Fakher, A. Sleiman, A. Ayesh, A. AL-Ghaferi, M.C. Petty, D. Zeze and Mohammed Mabrook 5 Nanoparticles-Based Flash-Like Nonvolatile Memories: Cluster Beam Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles and Challenges for the Overlying Control Oxide Layer . . . . . . . . . . . 157 E. Verrelli and D. Tsoukalas Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

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Chapter 1

Materials and Device Reliability in SONOS Memories Krishnaswamy Ramkumar

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Introduction

Non-volatile memories for data and code storage have been growing rapidly in performance and capacity over last few decades. With the advent of the many widely used consumer electronic gadgets such