PHASE CHANGE MEMORY WITH METASTABLE SET AND RESET STATES
    12.
    发明申请
    PHASE CHANGE MEMORY WITH METASTABLE SET AND RESET STATES 审中-公开
    相变更改存储器与可复制的设置和复位状态

    公开(公告)号:US20160125938A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-05-05

    申请号:US14749161

    申请日:2015-06-24

    Abstract: A memory device that includes a phase change material. The phase change material is programmable to a metastable set state and metastable reset state. Furthermore, the phase change material includes an initial state with an initial electrical resistance between the set electrical resistance and the reset electrical resistance. The initial state is at a lower potential energy than the set state and the reset state. Thus, the electrical resistance of the phase change material programmed to the set state or the reset state drifts toward the initial electrical resistance over time. The memory device also includes a first electrode electrically coupled to a first area of the phase change material, and a second electrode electrically coupled to a second area of the phase change material.

    Abstract translation: 一种包括相变材料的存储器件。 相变材料可编程为亚稳态和亚稳态复位状态。 此外,相变材料包括在设定的电阻和复位电阻之间具有初始电阻的初始状态。 初始状态处于比设定状态和复位状态低的势能。 因此,被编程到设定状态或复位状态的相变材料的电阻随时间漂移到初始电阻。 存储器件还包括电耦合到相变材料的第一区域的第一电极和电耦合到相变材料的第二区域的第二电极。

    Linear phase change memory
    17.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11715517B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-01

    申请号:US17396623

    申请日:2021-08-06

    CPC classification number: G11C13/0004 G06N3/063 G11C13/004 G11C13/0028

    Abstract: A phase change (PCM) memory device that includes a PCM and a resistance-capacitance (RC) circuit. The PCM has one or more PCM properties, each PCM property has a plurality of PCM property states. As the PCM property states of a given property are Set or Reset, the PCM property states each produce an incremental change to a property level of the respective/associated PCM property, e.g., PCM conductance. The incremental changes to property level of the PCM memory device are in response to application of one or more of a pulse number of voltage pulses. The RC circuit produces a configuring current that flows through the PCM in response to one or more of the voltage pulses. The configuring current modifies one or more of the incremental changes to one or more of the property levels so that the property level changes lineally with respect to the pulse number. The PCM memory device has use in a synapse connector, e.g., in a memory array. The memory array can be used to store and/or read memory values associated with one or more of the property levels. The memory values can be used as weighting values in a neuromorphic computing application/system, like a neural network.

    PHASE CHANGE MEMORY HAVING GRADUAL RESET

    公开(公告)号:US20230123642A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-20

    申请号:US18082189

    申请日:2022-12-15

    Abstract: A phase change memory (PCM) structure configured for performing a gradual reset operation includes first and second electrodes and a phase change material layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The PCM structure further includes a thermal insulation layer disposed on at least sidewalls of the first and second electrodes and phase change material layer. The thermal insulation layer is configured to provide non-uniform heating of the phase change material layer. Optionally, the thermal insulation layer may be formed as an air gap. The PCM structure may be configured having the first and second electrodes aligned in a vertical or a lateral arrangement.

    LINEAR PHASE CHANGE MEMORY
    20.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230044919A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17396623

    申请日:2021-08-06

    Abstract: A phase change (PCM) memory device that includes a PCM and a resistance-capacitance (RC) circuit. The PCM has one or more PCM properties, each PCM property has a plurality of PCM property states. As the PCM property states of a given property are Set or Reset, the PCM property states each produce an incremental change to a property level of the respective/associated PCM property, e.g., PCM conductance. The incremental changes to property level of the PCM memory device are in response to application of one or more of a pulse number of voltage pulses. The RC circuit produces a configuring current that flows through the PCM in response to one or more of the voltage pulses. The configuring current modifies one or more of the incremental changes to one or more of the property levels so that the property level changes lineally with respect to the pulse number. The PCM memory device has use in a synapse connector, e.g., in a memory array. The memory array can be used to store and/or read memory values associated with one or more of the property levels. The memory values can be used as weighting values in a neuromorphic computing application/system, like a neural network.

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