Graphene and Molybdenite Join Forces for a New Flash Memory

As noted here earlier this week, yet another attempt has been mounted to overthrow the non-volatile memory king: flash. It’s easy to be skeptical; the landscape of non-volatile memory is littered with pretenders to the throne. One of the biggest reasons for this carnage has been flash memory’s ability to consistently evolve into a more powerful memory storage medium than it had been originally.

Now researchers at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have combined graphene, which has already been shown to be effective as a basis for flash memory, with molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂  or molybdenite), which is developing into graphene’s biggest two-dimensional material rival, into a flash memory prototype with improved performance. [Read More]