• Offers a comprehensive overview of NAND flash memories, with insights into NAND history, technology, challenges, evolutions, and perspectives
• Describes new program disturb issues, data retention, power consumption, and possible solutions for the challenges of 3D NAND flash memory
• Written by an authority in NAND flash memory technology, with over 25 years’ experience

Seiichi Aritome was a Senior Research Fellow at SK Hynix Inc. in Icheon, Korea from 2009 to 2014. He has contributed to NAND flash memory technologies for over 27 years in several companies and nations. Aritome was a Program director at Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. in Hsinchu, Taiwan, a Senior Process Reliability Engineer at Micron Technology Inc. in Idaho, USA, and a Chief Specialist at Toshiba Corporation in Kawasaki, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Japan. Aritome is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE Electron Device Society.