Nanoscale Semiconductor Memories

7	Quantum Dot-Based Flash Memories
Tobias Nowozin, Andreas Marent, Martin Geller, and Dieter Bimberg

CONTENTS

7.1    Introduction

7.2    Conventional Charge-Based Semiconductor Memories (DRAM and Flash)

7.3    Memory Based on Self-Organized Quantum Dots

7.3.1    III-V Semiconductor Compounds and Heterostructures

7.3.2    Self-Organized Quantum Dots

7.3.3    Memory Cell Based on Self-Organized QDs

7.3.4    Storage in Self-Organized QDs

7.3.5    Charge Detection in QDs Using a 2-DEG/2-DHG

7.3.6    Write and Erase Times in QDs

7.3.7    Low-Temperature Demonstrator

7.3.8    Challenges To Be Solved

7.4    Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

7.1    INTRODUCTION

Some of the main technological achievements in the past decades are the capabilities ...