News tagged with magnetic random access memory

Novel coding technique patented

Over the past decade, tablet computers and smartphones have taken the world by storm, in no small part due to the way in which they can be switched on almost instantly. The race has been on to develop computers that can similarly ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

First patent on low density parity check coding with soft decision decoding for spin-torque transfer MRAM

Researchers at the A*STAR, Data Storage Institute (DSI), have filed a patent on low-density parity-check (LDPC) coding with soft decision decoding, which is an advanced error correction coding scheme for spin-torque transfer ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density

Solid-state memory is seeing an increase in demand due to the emergence of portable devices such as tablet computers and smart phones. Spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Magnetic attraction: NIST microchip demonstrates concept of 'MRAM for biomolecules'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder (CU) have developed a low-power microchip that uses a combination of microfluidics ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists make magnetic new graphene discovery

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to powerful new applications in magnetic storage and magnetic random access ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Extremely fast MRAM data storage within reach

Magnetic Random Access Memories (MRAM) are the most important new modules on the market of computer storage devices. Like the well known USB-sticks, they store information into static memory, but MRAM offer ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Research paper on magnetic control makes the top 10

A study of the electric field control of magnetism led by a Northeastern engineering professor was named one of the top 10 papers of the past decade by the prestigious journal Advanced Functional Materials.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Racetrack memory

Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that's 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks. EPFL Professor Mathias Klaui is working on a new kind of "racetrack" memory, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New technique allows 3-D visualization of quantum property

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique that maps the magnetic vector potential — one of the most important electromagnetic quantities and a foundation of quantum ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Half-a-loaf method can improve magnetic memories

Chinese scientists have shown that magnetic memory, logic and sensor cells can be made faster and more energy efficient by using an electric, not magnetic, field to flip the magnetization of the sensing layer only about halfway, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Electric control of aligned spins improves computer memory

Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB, Germany) and the French research facility CNRS, south of Paris, are using electric fields to manipulate the property of electrons known as "spin" to store data permanently. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

What Comes After Hard Drives?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (36) | comments 35 feature

'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the “giant magnetoresistance ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 3