Tunnel injection
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Tunnel injection is the quantum tunneling effect, also called Fowler-Nordheim tunnel injection, when charge carriers are injected to an electric conductor through a thin layer of an electric insulator.
It is used to program NAND flash memory. The process used for erasing is called tunnel release.
An alternative to tunnel injection is the spin injection.
See also: Hot carrier injection
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