Crystal flash chips
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 31, 2003 at 6:11:39 AM
A good breakthrough like this will help the flash memory business for sure. It shrinks the wrap of the transistor by using nanocrystals. Interesting stuff.
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The nanocrystal layer is far thinner than the silicon dioxide, Chang said. In fact, it's not even solid, and more like frost on a window. Although silicon is traditionally an electrical conductor, at these levels the quantum nature of the material takes over, and it becomes an insulator, trapping electrons and thereby retaining data.