Miniaturized Memory Devices

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, electronic memory elements are an essential component of all electronic devices, from computers to toys and from heath monitors to space technology. Furthermore, the solid-state implementations of these devices show great potential in such applications as artificial synapses, neuromorphic computing, and reconfigurable architectures. Numerous candidates for emerging electronic memory technologies, such as ferroelectric (FeRAM), phase change random access memory (PCRAM), magnetoresistive (MRAM), resistive random access memory (ReRAM), macromolecular, and Mott memory devices, as well as organic memory, etc., have been reported. On the other side, the miniaturization concept was proposed, for first time, by Richard Feynman in his lecture “Plenty of Room at the Bottom”. His theoretical concept has materialized in the electronic devices sector with miniaturization being one of the current trends in electronics.

This Special Issue will encompass a few of the most important aspects that are shared by all types of memories, such as fabrication, investigation of physical switching/charging mechanism(s), mathematical modeling, and applications; these are but a few examples, and the Special Issue is therefore open to additional aspects of fields related to memory. For this Special Issue, we invite contributions from both academia and the industry.

Dr. Iulia Salaoru
Prof. Shashi Paul
Guest Editors

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