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World’s smallest memory device

December 6 , 2020 1455 days 1274 0
  • The scientists have reduced the size of the thinnest memory storage device.
  • It was done by shrinking the cross-section area down to just one single square nanometre.
  • This development may lead to the creation of faster, smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips for consumer electronics.
  • The researchers used the compound molybdenum di sulfide, also known as MoS2, as the primary nanomaterial in their study.
  • The research was published recently in a journal called ‘Nature Nanotechnology’.
  • The researchers belong to the University of Texas at Austin in the USA.

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