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Room-temperature single-electron memory

Yano et al., 2002

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18230853093331907718
Author
Yano K
Ishii T
Hashimoto T
Kobayashi T
Murai F
Seki K
Publication year
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IEEE transactions on electron devices

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This paper presents room-temperature operation, for the first time, of single-electron memory, in which one electron represents one bit of information. This is made possible by our new one-transistor memory configuration which has a very high charge sensitivity …
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