Toshiba Corporation today announced that the company has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the world's lowest power consumption ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 13, 2012
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Random-access memory (RAM) is a fast electronic device used in computers to temporarily store data. Traditional RAM is based on the flow of electrical current for data processing. To make RAM faster, more energy efficient ...
General Physics
Dec 5, 2012
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A discovery by New York University physicists that has potential to significantly enhance computer memory has been cited by Applied Physics Letters as "one of the most notable" articles the journal has published over the ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2012
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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) is a new type of ...
General Physics
Feb 2, 2012
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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. ...
General Physics
Jan 19, 2010
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Computers often do not run as fast as they should because they are constantly transferring information between two kinds of memory: a fast, volatile memory connected to the CPU, and a slow, non-volatile memory that remembers ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 2, 2012
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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 ...
Engineering
Apr 12, 2012
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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 ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Mar 14, 2012
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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.
Materials Science
Nov 30, 2010
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