News tagged with nonvolatile memory

Elpida Memory develops resistance RAM prototype

Elpida Memory, the world's third largest Dynamic Random Access Memory ("DRAM") manufacturer, today announced the development of its first-ever high-speed non-volatile resistance memory (ReRAM) prototype. As the ReRAM prototype ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Vertical silicon nanowires for nonvolatile memory devices

As electronic devices become smaller and more sophisticated, the search for compact nonvolatile memory becomes increasingly important. However, conventional silicon technologies, such as complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Imec reports smallest fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM cell

At today's 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), imec presents the world’s smallest, fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM (RRAM) cell, with an area of less than 10x10nm². The new cell shows ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Magnetic control of anomalous hall effect induced by spin chirality

Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo and RIKEN announced that researchers from both institutes succeeded in the magnetic control of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) induced by spin chirality. Details were ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicists measure current-induced torque in nonvolatile magnetic memory devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow's nonvolatile memory devices – computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered – will profoundly change electronics, and Cornell University researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nonvolatile memory based on ferroelectric-graphene field-effect transistors is now a step closer to reality

A fundamental component of a field-effect transistor (FET) is the gate dielectric, which determines the number of charge carriers -- electrons or electron vacancies -- that can be injected into the active ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New device may revolutionize computer memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new device that represents a significant advance for computer memory, making large-scale "server farms" more energy efficient and allowing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Cheaper substrates made of oxide materials

Imagine building cheaper electronics on a variety of substrates -- materials like plastic, paper, or fabric. Researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University have made a discovery that opens this door, allowing them ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 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

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1