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Ion-Based Data Allows Atom-Sized Storage Cells Similar To Brain Structure (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in Germany have developed a method of writing data with ions and retrieving it with electrons that opens the path for atom-sized storage devices which are similar to structures found in the human brain. The Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University joined the Ruhr Universitat Bochum to seek alternatives to conventional memory technologies, which involve the displacement of electrons by applying voltage, but which promise little more advance in terms of capacity or form-factor. The new technique is based on electrical resistance using a solid ion conductor.
What wife? You mean my pig?
http://www.nature.com/articles...
In conclusion, a double barrier memristive device was realized with a highly uniform current distribution for the high and low resistance states, which indicates a non-filamentary based resistive switching mechanism. We have shown evidence that the use of an ultra-thin NbxOy solid state electrolyte layer of 2.5nm sandwiched between an Au (Schottky) contact and an Al2O3 tunneling barrier restricts the resistive switching mechanism to interfacial effects where both barriers are involved. This may lead to the observed drastically improved retention characteristic compared to the single barrier Schottky contact devices and may be based on confined oxygen ion diffusion within the sandwiched NbxOy layer.
Your mom; your sister. Whatever.
Was?
The next line should probably be:"So you're a necrophiliac, then?"
Do they mean: partial, inaccurate, self-falsifying, full of holes, and quickly decaying?
Final paragraph makes nebulous claim about highly parallel low power devices being able to do tasks the human brain can.......this has zero to do with any process or structure found in the human or any other animal brain.
~ waiting for the disk formatting to complete...
Your mom's not dead, pencil dick.
I ran electricity through a moist fart cloud once, similar to the processes found in the human brain.
Besides the point... molecule sized transistor, atoms for hardware, light as processor, we're getting some cool stuffs soon. Only bad part is, none of those parts will be on ebay anytime soon.
It's my "alma mater". From the "nature" article I gather some bods from Bochum "Theroretical Electrical Engineering" were involved. So it's "alma mater" but not my department...