Samsung patents method to simulate electron behavior in memory chips
Samsung has filed a patent for a computer simulation method that predicts how electrons move through a memory device. The process calculates the energy of injected electrons, tracks how they scatter in a specific layer, and adjusts a measurement called the capture cross section based on their final kinetic energy.
In the filing’s own words
A method for predicting an operation of a memory device performed by a processor includes determining injection energy of an electron injected into the memory device, in a simulation, determining scattering degree of an electron in a charge trap layer based on the injection energy, obtaining kinetic energy of the electron in the charge trap layer based on the scattering degree, and adjusting an electron capture cross section based on the kinetic energy of the electron.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for predicting an operation of a memory device performed by a processor, the method comprising: determining an injection energy of an electron injected into the memory device, in a simulation; determining a scattering degree of an electron in a charge trap layer based on the injection energy; obtaining a kinetic energy of the electron in the charge trap layer based on the scattering degree; and adjusting an electron capture cross section based on the kinetic energy of the electron.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- METHOD FOR PREDICTING BEHAVIOR OF MEMORY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
- Publication number
- US20260321322A1
- Application number
- 19643394
- Filed
- Apr 9, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G11C 16/3431 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Chips & hardware
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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