Story highlights
- Stanford researchers demonstrate graphene memory applications
- The researchers created graphene memory with the speed of RAM and the persistence of flash
(2D Materials Magazine)- In three recent experiments, Stanford University researchers have demonstrated graphene-based post-silicon materials and technologies that store more data per square inch and use a fraction of the energy of today’s memory chips.
Eric Pop, associate professor of electrical engineering and a contributor to two of the three memory projects
“Graphene is the star of this research. With these new storage technologies, it would be conceivable to design a smartphone that could store 10 times as much data, using less battery power, than the memory we use today.”
Professor H.-S. Philip Wong and Pop led an international group of collaborators who describe three graphene-centric memory technologies in separate articles in Nature Communications, Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters.
The Stanford-led researchers created memory with the speed of RAM and the persistence of flash by using new materials and technologies that require less energy than silicon to store the zeroes and ones.
