Information technology abroad: Memory chip for future transparent devices created

Scientists from the U.S. Rice University announced the completion of the development of flexible transparent memory chip. According to them, this kind of memory can be used in future devices that will be able to easily evolve and change shape.

James Tour, a chemist at Rice University in the U.S., has developed in his laboratory a new type of computer memory from a transparent flexible material. Silicon oxide has been used as the active ingredient of a new sample.

Tour demonstrated the memory at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. According to him, a new type of memory can be combined with transparent electrodes, which had been previously developed at Rice University for flexible touch screens, and with transparent integrated circuits and batteries, developed in other laboratories in recent years.

It is known that the new memory model is able to withstand temperatures over 500 degrees Celsius - it will enable to apply this memory in many devices used in extreme conditions.