The narrow, deep holes required for one type of flash memory are made twice as fast with the right recipe, which includes a plasma made from hydrogen fluoride. To ...

Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the ...

An artist’s representation of a hole etched into alternating layers of silicon oxide and silicon nitride using plasma, to make 3D NAND flash memory. Researchers want to refine how they make these ...

In 1987 Fujio Masuoka, then working at Toshiba, introduced NAND flash at the 1987 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco. Toshiba said that the name “flash” was suggested ...

Scientists maximize the efficiency of hafnia-based ferroelectric memory devices. A research team led by Professor Jang-Sik Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the ...

Flash drives are expensive and hold less data, but for tablet PCs, which tend to get dropped a lot, they can be a good fit. Photos: Flash-based LifeBooks Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

It used to be that every few years, the business media would report on the latest “slump” in sales of flash memory semiconductors. This was a decades-long trend — demand would “hot up,” as the Brits ...