2D Metal to Replace Silicon in Memory??

[Arthur Hanson]

Researchers have discovered a way to use shifts between 2D layers of metal that may prove more dense than silicon for use in storage. Any thoughts or opinions on this would be welcome. Could this lead to other changes in the semi/nanotech sector or just be another scientific curiosity?

Shifting stacks of 2D metals could make fast, dense new data storage

A new type of data storage system could be denser, smaller, faster and more energy efficient than silicon chips. The new method involves encoding data in sliding stacks of two-dimensional layers of metals.

newatlas.com

 

[Daniel Payne]

The article states that to read the data requires use of a magnetic field, but they don't provide any details for integrated circuitry that small at the nanometer level. My take is that this is pure research with no application. Just writing data is only half of the job of a memory circuit.

 

[Fred Chen]

It's important to confirm the restacking would not occur thermally.