Phase Change Memory

1. An Introduction on Phase-Change Memories
Agostino Pirovano

2. Electrical Transport in Crystalline and Amorphous Chalcogenide
Daniele Ielmini

3. Thermal Model and Remarkable Temperature Effects on the Chalcogenide Alloy
Mattia Boniardi

4. Self-Consistent Numerical Model
Andrea Redaelli

5. PCM Main Reliability Features
Robert Gleixner

6. Structure and Properties of Chalcogenide Materials for PCM
Pierre Noé, Françoise Hippert

7. Material Engineering for PCM Device Optimization
Véronique Sousa, Gabriele Navarro

8. The Scaling of Phase-Change Memory Materials and Devices
Hasan Hayat, Krisztian I. Kohary, C. David Wright

9. Phase-Change Memory Device Architecture
Fabio Pellizzer

10. PCM Array Architecture and Management
Corrado Villa

11. PCM Applications and an Outlook to the Future
Gregory Atwood

Keywords: Materials Science, Optical and Electronic Materials, Semiconductors, Circuits and Systems, Computation by Abstract Devices, Electronic Circuits and Devices