Overview of radiation effects on emerging non-volatile memory technologies

Abstract

In this paper we give an overview of radiation effects in emergent, non-volatile memory technologies. Investigations into radiation hardness of resistive random access memory, ferroelectric random access memory, magneto-resistive random access memory, and phase change memory are presented in cases where these memory devices were subjected to different types of radiation. The obtained results proved high radiation tolerance of studied devices making them good candidates for application in radiation-intensive environments. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 171007]

Keywords

• non-volatile memory
• radiation effect
• resistive RAM
• ferroelectric RAM
• magneto-resistive RAM
• phase change memory