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HTTP:: Innovation to Use Graphite as Data Storage Medium
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Experts from the Rice University have recently announced new progress in nanotechnology research. They found a new way of using graphite, a basic carbon compound that makes up the inside of pencils, as a reprogrammable gate array. This could bring about a revolution in integrated-circuit logic design, which could, in turn, further the research for very dense and stable, nonvolatile memories, for a wide array of digital devices, from mobile phones to computers. The investigation was conducted in the lab of the RU Chao Professor of Chemistry James Tour. The expert is also a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, and of computer science at the university. He collaborated closely with Alexander Sinitskii, a postdoctoral research associate for the new study, which was published in the latest online issue of the respected journal ACS Nano. The team essentially found a way of depositing ten-nanometer stripes of amorphous graphite onto silicon, using nothing b!
ut an industry-standard lithographic technique. “We're using chemical vapor deposition and lithography â€" techniques the industry understands. That makes this a good alternative to our previous carbon-coated nanocable devices, which perform well but are very difficult to manufacture,” Tour explains. The two were fun...
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