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Low-Cost Radiation-Hard Nonvolatile Random-Access Memory

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9453-12-M-0058
Agency Tracking Number: F112-087-1155
Amount: $149,963.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF112-087
Solicitation Number: 2011.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2011
Award Year: 2012
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2011-11-18
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
1250 Capital of Texas Highway South Building 3, Suite 400
Austin, TX -
United States
DUNS: 788622012
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Burt Fowler
 Principal Investigator
 (512) 431-8460
 burt.fowler@earthlink.net
Business Contact
 Glenn Mortland
Title: President / CEO
Phone: (512) 633-3476
Email: gmortland@austin.rr.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

ABSTRACT: PrivaTran will measure the radiation tolerance of new memristive materials and will design, model and simulate advanced memristor-based architectures for nonvolatile random access memory (RAM). The requirements for proper memory element isolation, programming voltage drive and current sense circuitry will be determined by circuit analysis. Memristor circuit models will be developed and used to trade different memristor types and optimize performance to the technical program objectives. Viable circuit topologies will be identified that enable high-density data storage solutions for aerospace and defense applications. Phase II prototype fabrication and commercialization work plans will be developed including a manufacturability analysis addressing materials compatibility and integration methods for insertion into current CMOS and BJT platforms as well as scaling the technology to the 10nm technology node and beyond. BENEFIT: The benefits of the proposed memristor architecture and materials include low-power nonvolatile memory operation, inherent radiation tolerance, good data retention over large temperature extremes, compatibility with three-dimensional (3D) memory architecture, fast switching speeds, large ON/OFF dynamic range, vacuum compatibility, highly-localized switching, good immunity to EMI, and unipolar switching, thus enabling a low-cost, high-density, memristor-based RAM that can be directly inserted into current and future Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) and Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) semiconductor manufacturing platforms to provide a solution for aerospace and defense systems with the combined performance of conventional hard disk, RAM and FLASH memory technology.

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