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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2018
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Addison, TX (US);
Michael K. Grobis, Campbell, CA (US);
Derek Stewart, Livermore, CA (US);
Bruce D. Terris, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Addison, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided that includes a bit line above a substrate, a word line above the substrate, and a non-volatile memory cell between the bit line and the word line. The non-volatile memory cell includes a reversible resistance-switching memory element coupled in series with an isolation element. The isolation element includes a first selector element coupled in series with a second selector element. The first selector element includes a first snapback current, and the second selector element includes a second snapback current lower than the first snapback current.