“…alloys or Al 2 O 3 ) as tunnel oxide and/or inter-poly oxide is still active. Most of them concern metal NPs as Au [22,23], Ag [24] or Pd [25] or metal oxide NCs as Gd 2 O 3 [26], ZnO [27]. Finally, only a few recent papers concern Ge or Si quantum dots in metal oxide high-κ dielectrics for NVM [28,29].…”