Professor James Tour of Rice University says graphite-based storage elements have a huge advantage over current flash memory technology. The graphene structures can be 10nm in size, as opposed to the 45nm typical in today’s flash chips. Better still, the graphite strips require only two terminals to work rather than three, which means that chips can have many layers much more easily. As the process is mechanical, the device would retain information without using any power.
Texan Prof Sees Big Future for Graphene Storage
November 25, 2008