Transparent, Flexible "3-D" Memory Chips May Be the Next Big Thing in Small Memory Devices
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 19:30
in Physics & Chemistry
New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures -- twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven -- and survive other hostile conditions could usher in the development of next-generation flash-competitive memory for tomorrow's keychain drives, cell phones and computers, a scientist reported today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.