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  • Materials Science
  • Computer Engineering

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  • Nonvolatile memory technologies, including Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors (FeFETs), emerged in the 1990s as alternatives to conventional Flash memory due to scaling limitations.
  • Flash memory, particularly NAND Flash in Solid-State Drives (SSDs), is prevalent in consumer electronics and data centers but faces approaching integration limits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the rapidly developing field of emerging memory technologies.
  • To investigate the scaling of scientific procedures for advanced Flash memory devices and potential replacements.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of recent progress in advanced Flash memory devices.
  • Analysis of emerging nonvolatile memory technologies, including FeFET, MRAM, STT-RAM, FeRAM, PCM, and RRAM.
  • Exploration of novel memory concepts like transparent, plastic, 3-D, and quantum dot memory.

Main Results:

  • Emerging memory technologies offer potential advantages over traditional Flash memory, including speed, density, and nonvolatility.
  • New memory types aim to store more data at lower costs, addressing the limitations of current silicon-based chips.
  • Significant research is focused on developing alternatives for future memory hierarchies in computing systems.

Conclusions:

  • The field of nonvolatile memory is rapidly evolving with numerous emerging technologies.
  • These new memory solutions are poised to become crucial components in future computing architectures.
  • Continued investigation into advanced Flash memory and novel memory types is essential for technological advancement.