Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Chris Petti

Eran Sharon

Idan Alrod

Masaaki Higashitani

Ariel Navon

Peter Rabkin

Alex Bazarsky

Perumal Ratnam

A controller for a phase change memory forms a dedicated burst write partition in the phase change memory and initializes memory cells of the dedicated burst write partition to a SET state. Programming of selected memory cells in the dedicated burst write partition is carried out using only RESET pulses.

Burst mode operation conditioning for a memory device

Technology is described for reversible resistivity memory having a crystalline silicon bit line. In one aspect, a memory structure comprises a hollow pillar of crystalline silicon inside of reversible resistivity material. The crystalline silicon may serve as a bit line. The memory structure may further comprise conductive material that forms word lines coupled to the outer surface of the reversible resistivity material. A memory cell comprises a portion of the reversible resistivity material between the crystalline silicon and one of the word lines. In one aspect, the hollow pillar of crystalline silicon surrounds a gate oxide, which surrounds a conductive transistor gate. Thus, the hollow pillar of crystalline silicon may function as a channel of a transistor. In one aspect, the crystalline silicon has predominantly a (100) orientation with respect to an inner surface of the reversible resistivity material. In one aspect, the crystalline silicon is a single crystal.

Reversible resistivity memory with crystalline silicon bit line

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