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Monday, September 11, 2006

"CHIPS: Team demonstrates molecular-scale memory"

As chip dimensions shrink, picometer variability among nanoscale dimensions and the uneven distribution of dopants stand in the way of further miniaturization. Use of a precisely designed organic molecule as the memory storage element could provide one solution, because the molecules could be mass-produced to be identical. Recently, the IBM Research Laboratory (Zurich, Switzerland) demonstrated one such molecule, which it claims can be electrically programmed to store a bit in two bistable states.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192501780