The next big hurdle, he predicts, is to make memory devices in which both the bottom and top electrodes are carbon nanotubes.

AMD's technology is employed by one of the world's largest producers of Flash memory devices, Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Ltd.

A US patent has been awarded for the electronic memory device with another patent pending, while several companies have expressed an interest or are actively involved in the research.

The report also segments the radiation hardened electronics & semiconductors market by components such as processors & controllers, memory devices, power management, FPGAs & ASICs, and other components.

As one of the most widely used tethered alkyl substituted polythiophenes, poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), as well as its block copolymers and composites, were successfully synthesized and investigated their applications in memory device due to easy processibility and excellent memory performance.

Xilin Zhou of the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences said that so far, the most popular material for phase-change memory devices contains germanium, antimony, and tellurium but compounds with three elements are more difficult to work with.

Finally, using a consumer memory device may increase the risk of data theft.

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21 October 2011 - Norwegian data storage company Thin Film Electronics ASA (OSL:THIN), or Thinfilm, said today it has co-developed a working prototype of the world's first printed non-volatile memory device with complementary organic circuits.

The smaller the memory device unit, the more that they can be packed, thus the more information a chip will be able to store.

In addition to the internal memory, the RDXL120's design also allows for external storage such as CF or SD card and USB memory device. The list price is $2,750.