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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">General</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="Memory_cell_(computing)" title="Memory cell (computing)">Memory cell</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory_coherence" title="Memory coherence">Memory coherence</a></li>
<li><a href="Cache_coherence" title="Cache coherence">Cache coherence</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory_hierarchy" title="Memory hierarchy">Memory hierarchy</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory_access_pattern" title="Memory access pattern">Memory access pattern</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory_map" title="Memory map">Memory map</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_data_storage#Secondary_storage" title="Computer data storage">Secondary storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Semiconductor_memory" title="Semiconductor memory">MOS memory</a>
<ul><li><a href="Floating-gate_MOSFET" title="Floating-gate MOSFET">floating-gate</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Continuous_availability" title="Continuous availability">Continuous availability</a></li>
<li><a href="Areal_density_(computer_storage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Areal density (computer storage)">Areal density (computer storage)</a></li>
<li><a href="Block_(data_storage)" title="Block (data storage)">Block (data storage)</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_storage" title="Object storage">Object storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Direct-attached_storage" title="Direct-attached storage">Direct-attached storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Network-attached_storage" title="Network-attached storage">Network-attached storage</a>
<ul><li><a href="Storage_area_network" title="Storage area network">Storage area network</a></li>
<li><a href="Block-level_storage" title="Block-level storage">Block-level storage</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Single-instance_storage" title="Single-instance storage">Single-instance storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Data" title="Data">Data</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_model" title="Data model">Structured data</a></li>
<li><a href="Unstructured_data" title="Unstructured data">Unstructured data</a></li>
<li><a href="Big_data" title="Big data">Big data</a></li>
<li><a href="Metadata" title="Metadata">Metadata</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_compression" title="Data compression">Data compression</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_corruption" title="Data corruption">Data corruption</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_cleansing" title="Data cleansing">Data cleansing</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_degradation" title="Data degradation">Data degradation</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_integrity" title="Data integrity">Data integrity</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_security" title="Data security">Data security</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_validation" title="Data validation">Data validation</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_validation_and_reconciliation" title="Data validation and reconciliation">Data validation and reconciliation</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_recovery" title="Data recovery">Data recovery</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage">Storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_cluster" class="mw-redirect" title="Data cluster">Data cluster</a></li>
<li><a href="Directory_(computing)" title="Directory (computing)">Directory</a></li>
<li><a href="Shared_resource" title="Shared resource">Shared resource</a></li>
<li><a href="File_sharing" title="File sharing">File sharing</a></li>
<li><a href="File_system" title="File system">File system</a></li>
<li><a href="Clustered_file_system" title="Clustered file system">Clustered file system</a></li>
<li><a href="Clustered_file_system#Distributed_file_systems" title="Clustered file system">Distributed file system</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_file_system_for_cloud" title="Distributed file system for cloud">Distributed file system for cloud</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_data_store" title="Distributed data store">Distributed data store</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_database" title="Distributed database">Distributed database</a></li>
<li><a href="Database" title="Database">Database</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_bank" title="Data bank">Data bank</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_storage" title="Data storage">Data storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_store" title="Data store">Data store</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">Data deduplication</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_structure" title="Data structure">Data structure</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_redundancy" title="Data redundancy">Data redundancy</a></li>
<li><a href="Replication_(computing)" title="Replication (computing)">Replication (computing)</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory_refresh" title="Memory refresh">Memory refresh</a></li>
<li><a href="Storage_record" title="Storage record">Storage record</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_repository" title="Information repository">Information repository</a></li>
<li><a href="Knowledge_base" title="Knowledge base">Knowledge base</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_file" title="Computer file">Computer file</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_file" title="Object file">Object file</a></li>
<li><a href="File_deletion" title="File deletion">File deletion</a></li>
<li><a href="File_copying" title="File copying">File copying</a></li>
<li><a href="Backup" title="Backup">Backup</a></li>
<li><a href="Core_dump" title="Core dump">Core dump</a></li>
<li><a href="Hex_dump" title="Hex dump">Hex dump</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_communication" title="Data communication">Data communication</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_transfer" title="Information transfer">Information transfer</a></li>
<li><a href="Temporary_file" title="Temporary file">Temporary file</a></li>
<li><a href="Copy_protection" title="Copy protection">Copy protection</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_rights_management" title="Digital rights management">Digital rights management</a></li>
<li><a href="Volume_(computing)" title="Volume (computing)">Volume (computing)</a></li>
<li><a href="Boot_sector" title="Boot sector">Boot sector</a></li>
<li><a href="Master_boot_record" title="Master boot record">Master boot record</a></li>
<li><a href="Volume_boot_record" title="Volume boot record">Volume boot record</a></li>
<li><a href="GUID_Partition_Table" title="GUID Partition Table">GUID Partition Table</a></li>
<li><a href="Disk_array" title="Disk array">Disk array</a></li>
<li><a href="Disk_image" title="Disk image">Disk image</a></li>
<li><a href="Disk_mirroring" title="Disk mirroring">Disk mirroring</a></li>
<li><a href="Disk_aggregation" title="Disk aggregation">Disk aggregation</a></li>
<li><a href="Disk_partitioning" title="Disk partitioning">Disk partitioning</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory_segmentation" title="Memory segmentation">Memory segmentation</a></li>
<li><a href="Locality_of_reference" title="Locality of reference">Locality of reference</a></li>
<li><a href="Logical_disk" title="Logical disk">Logical disk</a></li>
<li><a href="Storage_virtualization" title="Storage virtualization">Storage virtualization</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_memory" title="Virtual memory">Virtual memory</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory-mapped_file" title="Memory-mapped file">Memory-mapped file</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_entropy" class="mw-redirect" title="Software entropy">Software entropy</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_rot" title="Software rot">Software rot</a></li>
<li><a href="In-memory_database" title="In-memory database">In-memory database</a></li>
<li><a href="In-memory_processing" title="In-memory processing">In-memory processing</a></li>
<li><a href="Persistence_(computer_science)" title="Persistence (computer science)">Persistence (computer science)</a></li>
<li><a href="Persistent_data_structure" title="Persistent data structure">Persistent data structure</a></li>
<li><a href="RAID" title="RAID">RAID</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-RAID_drive_architectures" title="Non-RAID drive architectures">Non-RAID drive architectures</a></li>
<li><a href="Memory_paging" title="Memory paging">Memory paging</a></li>
<li><a href="Bank_switching" title="Bank switching">Bank switching</a></li>
<li><a href="Grid_computing" title="Grid computing">Grid computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">Cloud computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cloud_storage" title="Cloud storage">Cloud storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Fog_computing" title="Fog computing">Fog computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Edge_computing" title="Edge computing">Edge computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Dew_computing" title="Dew computing">Dew computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Amdahl's_law" title="Amdahl's law">Amdahl's law</a></li>
<li><a href="Moore's_law" title="Moore's law">Moore's law</a></li>
<li><a href="Mark_Kryder#Kryder's_law_projection" title="Mark Kryder">Kryder's law</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<a href="Volatile_memory" title="Volatile memory">Volatile</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Random-access_memory" title="Random-access memory">RAM</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="Cache_(computing)#HARDWARE" title="Cache (computing)">Hardware cache</a>
<ul><li><a href="CPU_cache" title="CPU cache">CPU cache</a></li>
<li><a href="Scratchpad_memory" title="Scratchpad memory">Scratchpad memory</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_random-access_memory" title="Dynamic random-access memory">DRAM</a>
<ul><li><a href="EDRAM" title="EDRAM">eDRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Synchronous_dynamic_random-access_memory" title="Synchronous dynamic random-access memory">SDRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Synchronous_dynamic_random-access_memory#Synchronous_Graphics_RAM_(SGRAM)" title="Synchronous dynamic random-access memory">SGRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="DDR_SDRAM" title="DDR SDRAM">DDR</a></li>
<li><a href="GDDR_SDRAM" title="GDDR SDRAM">GDDR</a></li>
<li><a href="LPDDR" title="LPDDR">LPDDR</a></li>
<li><a href="Quad_Data_Rate_SRAM" title="Quad Data Rate SRAM">QDRSRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_random-access_memory#Extended_data_out_DRAM" title="Dynamic random-access memory">EDO DRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="XDR_DRAM" title="XDR DRAM">XDR DRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="RDRAM" title="RDRAM">RDRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="High_Bandwidth_Memory" title="High Bandwidth Memory">HBM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Static_random-access_memory" title="Static random-access memory">SRAM</a>
<ul><li><a href="1T-SRAM" title="1T-SRAM">1T-SRAM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Resistive_random-access_memory" title="Resistive random-access memory">ReRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantum_memory" title="Quantum memory">QRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Content-addressable_memory" title="Content-addressable memory">Content-addressable memory</a> (CAM)</li>
<li><a href="Computational_RAM" title="Computational RAM">Computational RAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_random_access_memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Video random access memory">VRAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Dual-ported_RAM" title="Dual-ported RAM">Dual-ported RAM</a>
<ul><li><a href="Video_RAM_(dual-ported_DRAM)" class="mw-redirect" title="Video RAM (dual-ported DRAM)">Video RAM (dual-ported DRAM)</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Historical</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="Williams_tube" title="Williams tube">Williams–Kilburn tube</a> (1946–1947)</li>
<li><a href="Delay-line_memory" title="Delay-line memory">Delay-line memory</a> (1947)</li>
<li><a href="Mellon_optical_memory" title="Mellon optical memory">Mellon optical memory</a> (1951)</li>
<li><a href="Selectron_tube" title="Selectron tube">Selectron tube</a> (1952)</li>
<li><a href="Dekatron" title="Dekatron">Dekatron</a></li>
<li><a href="T-RAM" title="T-RAM">T-RAM</a> (2009)</li>
<li><a href="Z-RAM" title="Z-RAM">Z-RAM</a> (2002–2010)</li></ul></div></div></td>
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<a href="Non-volatile_memory" title="Non-volatile memory">Non-volatile</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Read-only_memory" title="Read-only memory">ROM</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="Diode_matrix" title="Diode matrix">Diode matrix</a></li>
<li><a href="Read-only_memory#Factory-programmed" title="Read-only memory">MROM</a></li>
<li><a href="Programmable_ROM" title="Programmable ROM">PROM</a>
<ul><li><a href="EPROM" title="EPROM">EPROM</a></li>
<li><a href="EEPROM" title="EEPROM">EEPROM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="ROM_cartridge" title="ROM cartridge">ROM cartridge</a></li>
<li><a href="Solid-state_storage" title="Solid-state storage">Solid-state storage</a> (SSS)
<ul><li><a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">Flash memory</a> is used in:</li>
<li><a href="Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">Solid-state drive</a> (SSD)</li>
<li><a href="Solid-state_hybrid_drive" class="mw-redirect" title="Solid-state hybrid drive">Solid-state hybrid drive</a> (SSHD)</li>
<li><a href="USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">USB flash drive</a></li>
<li><a href="IBM_FlashSystem" title="IBM FlashSystem">IBM FlashSystem</a></li>
<li><a href="Flash_Core_Module" title="Flash Core Module">Flash Core Module</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Memory_card" title="Memory card">Memory card</a>
<ul><li><a href="Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a></li>
<li><a href="CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a></li>
<li><a href="PC_Card" title="PC Card">PC Card</a></li>
<li><a href="MultiMediaCard" title="MultiMediaCard">MultiMediaCard</a></li>
<li><a href="SD_card" title="SD card">SD card</a></li>
<li><a href="SIM_card" title="SIM card">SIM card</a></li>
<li><a href="SmartMedia" title="SmartMedia">SmartMedia</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_Flash_Storage" title="Universal Flash Storage">Universal Flash Storage</a></li>
<li><a href="SxS" title="SxS">SxS</a></li>
<li><a href="MicroP2" title="MicroP2">MicroP2</a></li>
<li><a href="XQD_card" title="XQD card">XQD card</a></li></ul></li>
</ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Memistor" title="Memistor">Memistor</a></li>
<li><a href="Memristor" title="Memristor">Memristor</a></li>
<li><a href="Phase-change_memory" title="Phase-change memory">PCM</a> (<a href="3D_XPoint" title="3D XPoint">3D XPoint</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Magnetoresistive_RAM" title="Magnetoresistive RAM">MRAM</a></li>
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<p>The <b>programmable metallization cell</b>, or <b>PMC</b>, is a <a href="Non-volatile_memory" title="Non-volatile memory">non-volatile</a> <a href="Computer_memory" title="Computer memory">computer memory</a> developed at <a href="Arizona_State_University" title="Arizona State University">Arizona State University</a>. PMC, a technology developed to replace the widely used <a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">flash memory</a>, providing a combination of longer lifetimes, lower power, and better memory density. <a href="Infineon_Technologies" title="Infineon Technologies">Infineon Technologies</a>, who licensed the technology in 2004, refers to it as <b>conductive-bridging <a href="RAM" class="mw-redirect" title="RAM">RAM</a></b>, or <b>CBRAM</b>. CBRAM became a registered trademark of <a href="Adesto_Technologies" title="Adesto Technologies">Adesto Technologies</a> in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a> has a variant called "Nanobridge" and <a href="Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> calls their version "electrolytic memory".
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2></div>
<p>PMC is a two terminal <a href="RRAM" class="mw-redirect" title="RRAM">resistive memory</a> technology developed at <a href="Arizona_State_University" title="Arizona State University">Arizona State University</a>. PMC is an electrochemical metallization memory that relies on <a href="Redox" title="Redox">redox</a> reactions to form and dissolve a conductive filament.<sup id="cite_ref-valov2011_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-valov2011-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The state of the device is determined by the resistance across the two terminals. The existence of a filament between the terminals produces a low resistance state (LRS) while the absence of a filament results in a high resistance state (HRS). A PMC device is made of two solid metal electrodes, one relatively inert (e.g., <a href="Tungsten" title="Tungsten">tungsten</a> or <a href="Nickel" title="Nickel">nickel</a>) the other electrochemically active (e.g., <a href="Silver" title="Silver">silver</a> or <a href="Copper" title="Copper">copper</a>), with a <a href="Thin_film" title="Thin film">thin film</a> of <a href="Solid_electrolyte" class="mw-redirect" title="Solid electrolyte">solid electrolyte</a> between them.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Device_operation">Device operation</h2></div>
<p>The resistance state of a PMC is controlled by the formation (programming) or dissolution (erasing) of a metallic conductive filament between the two terminals of the cell. A formed filament is a <a href="Diffusion-limited_aggregation" title="Diffusion-limited aggregation">fractal tree</a> like structure.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Filament_formation">Filament formation</h3></div>
<p>PMC rely on the formation of a metallic conductive filament to transition to a low resistance state (LRS). The filament is created by applying a positive <a href="Voltage" title="Voltage">voltage</a> bias (<i>V</i>) to the <a href="Anode" title="Anode">anode</a> contact (active metal) while <a href="Ground_(electricity)" title="Ground (electricity)">grounding</a> the <a href="Cathode" title="Cathode">cathode</a> contact (inert metal). The positive bias <a href="Redox" title="Redox">oxidizes</a> the active metal (M):
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<p>The applied bias generates an <a href="Electric_field" title="Electric field">electric field</a> between the two metal contacts. The ionized (oxidized) metal ions migrate along the electric field toward the cathode contact. At the cathode contact, the metal ions are <a href="Redox" title="Redox">reduced</a>:
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<dl><dd>M<sup>+</sup> + <a href="Electron" title="Electron">e<sup>−</sup></a> → M</dd></dl>
<p>As the active metal deposits on the cathode, the electric field increases between the anode and the deposit. The evolution of the local electric field (<i>E</i>) between the growing filament and the anode can be simplistically related to the following:
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<p>where <i>d</i> is the distance between the anode and the top of the growing filament. The filament will grow to connect to the anode within a few nanoseconds.<sup id="cite_ref-IEEE_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEEE-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Metal ions will continue to be reduced at the filament until the voltage is removed, broadening the conductive filament and decreasing the resistance of the connection over time. Once the voltage is removed, the conductive filament will remain, leaving the device in a LRS.
</p><p>The conductive filament may not be continuous, but a chain of electrodeposit islands or nanocrystals.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is likely to prevail at low programming currents (less than 1 <a href="Micro-" title="Micro-">μ</a><a href="Ampere" title="Ampere">A</a>) whereas higher programming current will lead to a mostly metallic conductor.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Filament_dissolution">Filament dissolution</h3></div>
<p>A PMC can be "erased" into a high resistance state (HRS) by applying a negative voltage bias to the anode. The redox process used to create the conductive filament is reversed and the metal ions migrate along the reversed electric field to reduce at the anode contact. With the filament removed, the PMC is analogous to parallel plate <a href="Capacitor" title="Capacitor">capacitor</a> with a high resistance of several <a href="Mega-" title="Mega-">M</a><a href="Ohm" title="Ohm">Ω</a> to <a href="Giga-" title="Giga-">G</a><a href="Ohm" title="Ohm">Ω</a> between the contacts.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Device_read">Device read</h3></div>
<p>An individual PMC can be read by applying a small voltage across the cell. As long as the applied read voltage is less than both the programming and erasing voltage threshold, the direction of the bias is not significant.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technology_comparison">Technology comparison</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CBRAM_vs._metal-oxide_ReRAM">CBRAM vs. metal-oxide ReRAM</h3></div>
<p>CBRAM differs from metal-oxide ReRAM in that for CBRAM metal ions dissolve readily in the material between the two electrodes, while for metal-oxides, the material between the electrodes requires a high electric field causing local damage akin to <a href="Dielectric_breakdown" class="mw-redirect" title="Dielectric breakdown">dielectric breakdown</a>, producing a trail of conducting defects (sometimes called a "filament"). Hence for CBRAM, one electrode must provide the dissolving ions, while for metal-oxide RRAM, a one-time "forming" step is required to generate the local damage.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CBRAM_vs._NAND_Flash">CBRAM vs. NAND Flash</h3></div>
<p>The primary form of <a href="Solid_state_(electronics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solid state (electronics)">solid-state</a> non-volatile memory in use is <a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">flash memory</a>, which is finding use in most roles formerly filled by <a href="Hard_drive" class="mw-redirect" title="Hard drive">hard drives</a>. Flash, however, has problems that led to many efforts to introduce products to replace it.
</p><p>Flash is based on the <a href="Floating_gate" class="mw-redirect" title="Floating gate">floating gate</a> concept, essentially a modified transistor. Conventional flash transistors have three connections, the source, drain and gate. The gate is the essential component of the transistor, controlling the resistance between the source and drain, and thereby acting as a switch. In the <a href="Floating_Gate_Transistor" class="mw-redirect" title="Floating Gate Transistor">floating gate transistor</a>, the gate is attached to a layer that traps electrons, leaving it switched on (or off) for extended periods of time. The floating gate can be re-written by passing a large current through the emitter-collector circuit.
</p><p>It is this large current that is flash's primary drawback, and for a number of reasons. For one, each application of the current physically degrades the cell, such that the cell will eventually be unwritable. Write cycles on the order of 10<sup>5</sup> to 10<sup>6</sup> are typical, limiting flash applications to roles where constant writing is not common. The current also requires an external circuit to generate, using a system known as a <a href="Charge_pump" title="Charge pump">charge pump</a>. The pump requires a fairly lengthy charging process so that writing is much slower than reading; the pump also requires much more power. Flash is thus an "asymmetrical" system, much more so than conventional <a href="Random_access_memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Random access memory">RAM</a> or hard drives.
</p><p>Another problem with flash is that the floating gate suffers leakage that slowly releases the charge. This is countered through the use of powerful surrounding insulators, but these require a certain physical size in order to be useful and also require a specific <a href="Integrated_circuit_layout" title="Integrated circuit layout">physical layout</a>, which is different from the more typical <a href="CMOS" title="CMOS">CMOS</a> layouts, which required several new fabrication techniques to be introduced. As flash scales rapidly downward in size the charge leakage increasingly becomes a problem, which led to predictions of its demise. However, massive market investment drove development of flash at rates in excess of <a href="Moore's_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Moore's Law">Moore's Law</a>, and <a href="Semiconductor_fabrication_plant" title="Semiconductor fabrication plant">semiconductor fabrication plants</a> using 30&nbsp;nm processes were brought online in late 2007.
</p><p>In contrast to flash, PMC writes with relatively low power and at high speed. The speed is inversely related to the power applied (to a point, there are mechanical limits), so the performance can be tuned.<sup id="cite_ref-wired_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wired-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>PMC, in theory, can scale to sizes much smaller than flash, theoretically as small as a few ion widths wide. Copper ions are about 0.75 angstroms,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so line widths on the order of nanometers seem possible. PMC was promoted as simpler in layout than flash.<sup id="cite_ref-wired_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wired-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>PMC technology was developed by Michael Kozicki, professor of electrical engineering at <a href="Arizona_State_University" title="Arizona State University">Arizona State University</a> in the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
Early experimental PMC systems were based on silver-doped <a href="Germanium_selenide" title="Germanium selenide">germanium selenide</a> glasses. Work turned to silver-doped germanium sulfide electrolytes and then to the copper-doped germanium sulfide electrolytes.<sup id="cite_ref-IEEE_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEEE-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There has been renewed interest in silver-doped germanium selenide devices due to their high, high resistance state. Copper-doped silicon dioxide glass PMC would be compatible with the CMOS <a href="Semiconductor_device_fabrication" title="Semiconductor device fabrication">fabrication</a> process.
</p><p>In 1996, Axon Technologies was founded to commercialize the PMC technology.
<a href="Micron_Technology" title="Micron Technology">Micron Technology</a> announced work with PMC in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-micron_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-micron-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Infineon" class="mw-redirect" title="Infineon">Infineon</a> followed in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-infineon_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infineon-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> PMC technology was licensed to Adesto Technologies by 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-wired_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wired-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
infineon had spun off memory business to its <a href="Qimonda" title="Qimonda">Qimonda</a> company, which in turn sold it to Adesto Technologies. A <a href="DARPA" title="DARPA">DARPA</a> grant was awarded in 2010 for further research.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2011, Adesto Technologies allied with the French company <a href="Altis_Semiconductor" class="mw-redirect" title="Altis Semiconductor">Altis Semiconductor</a> for development and manufacturing of CBRAM.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, Adesto introduced a sample CBRAM product in which a 1 megabit part was promoted to replace <a href="EEPROM" title="EEPROM">EEPROM</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>NEC developed the so-called nanobridge technology, using Cu<sub>2</sub>S or tantalumpentoxide as dielectric material. Hereby copper (compatible with copper metallization of the IC) makes the copper to migrate through Cu<sub>2</sub>S or Ta<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> making or breaking shorts between the copper and ruthenium electrodes.<sup id="cite_ref-SakamotoBanno2007_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SakamotoBanno2007-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The dominant use of this type of memory are space applications, since this type of memory is intrinsically radiation hard.
</p>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Static_random-access_memory" title="Static random-access memory">Static random-access memory</a></li></ul>
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