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Design and Analysis of Nanotube-Based Memory Cells
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Design and Analysis of Nanotube-Based Memory Cells

Shaoping Xiao, David R Andersen and Weixuan Yang
Nanoscale research letters, Vol.3(11), pp.416-420
11/2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11671-008-9167-8
PMCID: PMC3244958
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11671-008-9167-8View
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Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a nanoelectromechanical design as memory cells. A simple design contains a double-walled nanotube-based oscillator. Atomistic materials are deposed on the outer nanotube as electrodes. Once the WRITE voltages are applied on electrodes, the induced electromagnetic force can overcome the interlayer friction between the inner and outer tubes so that the oscillator can provide stable oscillations. The READ voltages are employed to indicate logic 0/1 states based on the position of the inner tube. A new continuum modeling is developed in this paper to analyze large models of the proposed nanoelectromechanical design. Our simulations demonstrate the mechanisms of the proposed design as both static and dynamic random memory cells.
Carbon nanotube Memory cells Continuum model Nano Express

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