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Carbon Nanotube-Based NVRAM In 2-3 Years?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nano-ram dept.

According to NanoWerk, UC Riverside researchers have come up with a memory device based on telescoping multi-walled carbon nanotubes. According to one of the researchers, 'This finding leads to a promising potential to build ultrafast high-density nonvolatile memory, up to 100 gigahertz or into the terahertz range" and a prototype could be demonstrated "in the next two to three years.' Similar devices from UCLA and Caltech based on bistable rotaxanes are farther along in being integrated into actual memory circuits, but tend to break after a fairly small number of position changes. Carbon nanotubes may promise more durable switches.

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  1. Forgot to post link to paper by Stile+65 · · Score: 5, Informative

    So here it is...

    http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/18/9/0957 05/

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  2. So, if this were extended to a... by StressGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Backend Architecture, Nano-RAM, type A" it would be called BA-Nano-RAM-A? ....it's ok....I'll just go now....

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    1. Re:So, if this were extended to a... by ashridah · · Score: 4, Funny

      It could be worse, it could be a gate and switch scam

  3. Simulations or something concrete? by haluness · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A brief scan of the paper seemed to indicate that their results were based on simulations. Do they have some working model that justifies it coming out in 2 or 3 years?

    Or did I read the paper to fast (hey, at least I *did* RTFA)?

  4. who knew by President_Camacho · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to NanoWerk, UC Riverside researchers have come up with a memory device based on telescoping multi-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Who would have guessed that, in the future, your computer would be a series of tubes?

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