Rice "Pushes Pencil" Graphite for High-Tech Memory

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Rice "Pushes Pencil" Graphite for High-Tech Memory

Description 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 bring about a revolution in integrated circuit logic design. In a paper published in ACS Nano, Tour and postdoctoral associate Alexander Sinitskii show how they used industry-standard lithographic techniques to deposit 10-nanometer stripes of amorphous graphite (semiconducting material commonly found in pencils) onto silicon. This potentially facilitates the creation of very dense, very stable nonvolatile memory for all kinds of digital devices. With backing from a major manufacturer of memory chips
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