{"id":376649,"date":"2017-09-21T05:52:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c073cf652651c46a00a8615b8f039b6b"},"modified":"2017-09-21T05:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:52:34","slug":"straining-the-memory-prototype-strain-engineered-materials-are-the-future-of-data-storage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=376649","title":{"rendered":"Straining the memory: Prototype strain engineered materials are the future of data storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology have nano-engineered a superlattice data storage material. Data is recorded at the interfaces of the superlattice layers. When the atoms at the interface are disordered, the material has a high electrical resistance while the ordered interface has a low electrical resistance. Only the interface switches, a subset of layers within the material, can remain unchanged and crystalline. This means that the interface can be engineered by the non-switching layers\u2014the entire structure need not switch into a disordered state. This makes the superlattice very different to unstructured phase change memory alloys, such as the Ge2Sb2Te5 alloy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology have nano-engineered a superlattice data storage material. Data is recorded at the interfaces of the superlattice layers. When the atoms at the interface are disordered, the material has a high electrical resistance while the ordered interface has a low electrical resistance. Only the interface switches, a subset of layers within the material, can remain unchanged and crystalline. This means that the interface can be engineered by the non-switching layers&mdash;the entire structure need not switch into a disordered state. This makes the superlattice very different to unstructured phase change memory alloys, such as the Ge2Sb2Te5 alloy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376650,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376649\/revisions\/376650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}