{"id":212686,"date":"2025-04-29T01:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/pressure-responsive-layered-semiconductor-shows-potential-for-next-gen-data-storage"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:32:42","slug":"pressure-responsive-layered-semiconductor-shows-potential-for-next-gen-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/pressure-responsive-layered-semiconductor-shows-potential-for-next-gen-data-storage","title":{"rendered":"Pressure-responsive, layered semiconductor shows potential for next-gen data storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pressure-responsive-layered-semiconductor-shows-potential-for-next-gen-data-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a new study by researchers at Washington State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte that shows a hybrid zinc telluride-based material can undergo surprising structural changes when squeezed together like a molecular sandwich. Those changes could make it a strong candidate for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/phase+change+memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phase change memory<\/a>, a type of ultra-fast, long-lasting data storage that works differently than the memory found in today\u2019s devices and doesn\u2019t need a constant power source.<\/p>\n<p>The research was made possible by a X-ray diffraction system that was acquired in 2022. This specialized equipment lets researchers observe tiny structural changes in the material as they happened\u2014all from WSU\u2019s Pullman campus. Usually, these kinds of experiments require time at massive national facilities like the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley National Laboratory in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy. That\u2019s according to a new study by researchers at Washington State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte that shows a hybrid zinc telluride-based material can undergo surprising structural changes when squeezed together like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212686","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}