"NANO" - TINY TECHNOLOGIES
		INFO BIO NANO MACRO ENVIRO Tiny Technologies at MIT Active Materials and Structures Laboratory Center for Bits and Atoms Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Microsystems Technology Laboratories Materials Processing Center Microphotonics Center NanoMechanical Technology Laboratory NanoStructures Laboratory Research Laboratory for Electronics			NANOCRYSTAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES Vladimir Bulovic Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Moungi Bawendi Department of Chemistry In the drive to build more powerful, smaller, faster computing systems, this research seeks to develop better-performing "non-volatile memory" - memory that could be used for storage in digital cameras, computers, and other consumer electronics. This project proposes a way to use self-assembly to manufacture a persistent, nano-scale memory cell that could be produced in an inexpensive organic production system. The performance advantages are many: this technology could lead to longer-life memory, with lower manufacturing costs, and, because each component is on a nanometer scale, it could offer many times the packing density of conventional memory cell arrays.
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