Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Sandisk 3d LLC

Chandu Gorla

Deepanshu Dutta

Zhenming Zhou

Dana Lee

Gerrit Jan Hemink

Andrei Mihnea

Sarath Chandran Puthenthermadam

Abhijit Bandyopadhyay

Guirong Liang

Li Xiao

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for state-dependent read compensation. A set of non-volatile storage cells comprising a plurality of word lines. A controller is configured to perform a read operation on one or more word lines adjacent to a target word line. A controller is configured to determine a read setting for application to a target word line based on a result of a read operation on one or more word lines adjacent to the target word line. A controller is configured to perform a read operation on a target word line using a determined read setting.

State-dependent read compensation

A memory cell in a 3-D read and write memory device has two bipolar resistance-switching layers with different respective switching currents. A low current resistance-switching layer can be switched in set and reset processes while a high current resistance-switching layer remains in a reset state and acts as a protection resistor to prevent excessively high currents on the low current resistance-switching layer. The low and high current resistance-switching layers can be of the same material such as a metal oxide, where the layers differ in terms of thickness, doping, leakiness, metal richness or other variables. Or, the low and high current resistance-switching layers can be of different materials, having one or more layers each. The high current resistance-switching layer can have a switching current which is greater than a switching current of the low current resistance-switching layer by a factor of at least 1.5 or 2.0, for instance.

Resistive random access memory with low current operation

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