ABSTRACT
A
series of advances in organic memory technology is demonstrated that enable an entirely
new low-cost memory technology. Researchers incorporate these advances with the
one of the most flexible material PLASTIC. This novel memory technology can be
utilized in a three-dimensional onetime- programmable storage array. Without the prohibitive costs of silicon processing, this
memory is capable of setting cost points several orders of
magnitude lower than their inorganic counterparts. They have also successfully integrated this technology onto
flexible plastic substrates. Combined with stacking, these vertical
memory elements can create ROM densities denser than many inorganic memories, at a fraction of the cost.
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Plastic-Memory Report
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Plastic Memory PPT
Moreover, this could be favorable to companies concerned about compliance regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, ensuring that the integrity of data on documents is preserved over long periods of time, the scientists said.
plastic memory report
Plastic Memory PPT
A conducting
plastic has been used to create a new memory technology with the potential to
store a megabit of data in a millimeter-square device - 10 times denser than
current magnetic memories. The device should also be cheap and fast, but cannot
be rewritten, so would only be suitable for permanent storage.
Imagine a scenario
where the memory stored in your digital camera or personal digital assistant is
partially based one of the most flexible materials made by man: plastic.
Scientists at HP
Labs and Princeton University are excited a new memory technology that could
store more data and cost less than traditional silicon-based chips for mobile
devices such as handheld computers, cell phones and MP3 players.
But this chip is
different than silicon technologies such as the popular flash memory, the
researchers said, because it's partially made of plastic in addition to a foil
substrate and some silicon. And while flash memory can be rewritten, the new
technology can be written to only once. But it can be read several times and
retains data without power because it won't require a laser or motor to read or
write.
HP scientist
Warren Jackson said simplifying the production of such memory chips is a key
factor because it has the potential to lower the cost of memory use on a per
megabyte basis for customers. However, this technology could potentially store
more data than flash, and perhaps even become fast enough to store video, he
said.
"This has the
ability to work for a slightly different market than flash because we would now
have the ability to not be able to write it a bunch of applications, but just
read it so it becomes a permanent record.," Jackson told internetnews.com.
Moreover, this could be favorable to companies concerned about compliance regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, ensuring that the integrity of data on documents is preserved over long periods of time, the scientists said.
According to
research analysts, finding alternative sources of memory has become a popular research
issue because flash memory is expected to reach serious limitations as the
dimension demands on devices increasingly get smaller to host a variety of form
factors. Smaller memory space means the transistors leak more electricity and
suck up more power.
But Gartner
research analyst Richard Gordon said engineering obstacles facing memory
technologies stretch back 30-plus years and noted that just last week Intel
announced a new transistor to take care of the leakage problem.
"Flash
technology is currently at a process node of the .11 micron level," Gordon
said "There is a roadmap to accommodate it for the next 10 years so it
still has a long time to go before it runs out of steam. I don't see that
changing unless there is a technology in terms of cost-per-bit and performance
that blows flash out of the water."
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