In one of the two new developments, Rice researchers are reporting in Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that they have succeeded in building reliable small digital switches that could shrink to a significantly smaller scale than is possible right now.
SCIENCE | August 31, 2010 Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chips Again By JOHN MARKOFF Researchers are reporting that they can overcome a barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory.
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