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If you could turn the DNA inside a cell into a little memory device on its own
The researchers have built a novel nanostructure that offers a new platform for the development of highly stable and reliable nanoscale memory devices.
"The structure we developed could be used for a range of electronic applications from ultrafast memory devices that can be shrunk down to a few nanometers,
and flash memory devices. Even heads-up displays on vehicle dashboards could soon be a reality. The new technology also has major medical implications.
#New Memristors Could Usher in Bionic Brains Last month we saw researchers in the US push the envelope of nonvolatile memory devices based on resistance switching to the point where they are now capable of mimicking the neurons in the human brain.
The researchers believe that these nanoscale memory devices promise a future of artificial intelligence network that could enable a so-called bionic brain.
Nili suggests that one of the potential applications for these nano-memory devices could be in replicating the human brain outside of the human body.
"The all-optical memory devices we have developed provide opportunities that go far beyond any of the approaches to optical data processing available today.""
Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage. The development of ever smaller and more energy-efficient storage devices according to this principle,
The memory device overcomes crosstalk problems that cause read errors in other devices. Image: Tour Group/Rice university) Details appear online in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters("Three-dimensional Networked Nanoporous Ta2o5x Memory System for Ultrahigh Density Storage".
The all-optical memory devices we have developed provide opportunities that go far beyond any of the approaches to optical data processing available today.
Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage. The development of ever smaller and more energy-efficient storage devices according to this principle,
Photonic integrated circuits (PICS) based on the technology could dramatically change the architecture of fiber-optic transceivers used in data center optical interconnects, by pushing down the cost of chip-level data transfer between logic and memory devices.
"This is the first ever truly nonvolatile integrated optical memory device to be created,"one of the team,
The basic concept behind resistive memory devices is the insertion of a dielectric material--one that won't normally conduct electricity--between two wires.
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