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Published online 22 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/452921a
Buckyballs give flash a boost
Fullerenes could be used to reduce amount of power needed in memory devices.
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Sanju Gupta, an electrical engineer and physicist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, says that the prospects of using buckyballs are exciting, but the reliability of these devices may lag behind, especially the resonances helping to lower the operation voltage which author mentions, as compared to alternatives including MRAM and Phase changing RAMs.