{"id":177138,"date":"2023-11-30T16:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/hybrid-phase-change-memristors-lead-to-new-computing-possibilities"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:28:15","slug":"hybrid-phase-change-memristors-lead-to-new-computing-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/hybrid-phase-change-memristors-lead-to-new-computing-possibilities","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid phase-change memristors lead to new computing possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By strategically straining materials that are as thin as a single layer of atoms, University of Rochester scientists have developed a new form of computing memory that is at once fast, dense, and low-power. The researchers outline their new hybrid resistive switches in a study<\/a> published in Nature Electronics.<\/p>\n

Developed in the lab of Stephen M. Wu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering<\/a> and of physics, the approach marries the best qualities of two existing forms of resistive switches used for memory<\/a>: memristors and phase-change materials<\/a>. Both forms have been explored for their advantages over today\u2019s most prevalent forms of memory, including dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and flash memory<\/a>, but they have their drawbacks.<\/p>\n

Wu says that memristors, which apply voltage to a thin filament between two electrodes, tend to suffer from a relative lack of reliability compared to other forms of memory. Meanwhile, phase-change materials, which involve selectively melting a material into either an amorphous state or a crystalline state, require too much power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By strategically straining materials that are as thin as a single layer of atoms, University of Rochester scientists have developed a new form of computing memory that is at once fast, dense, and low-power. The researchers outline their new hybrid resistive switches in a study published in Nature Electronics. Developed in the lab of Stephen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}