Nano RAM or NRAM

NANO RAM

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION HISTORY CARBON

NANOTUBE STORAGE IN NRAM ADVANTAGES LIMITATIONS USES OF NRAM CONCLUSION REFERENCES

Introduction Product Non

of Nanotechnology

volatile memory

Faster Large

& denser

Data storage

History Nanotechnology

since 1960s

NRAM

by Nantero (Dr.Thomas Rueckes)

Carbon

nanotube

CARBON NANOTUBES  Developed  An

by Sumio Iijima

implementation nanotechnology

 Active

memory element

CARBON NANOTUBES

CARBON NANOTUBES  Advantages  Very

small in size.  Low power consumption  Disadvantage  High

cost  Requirement of high precision  Occurrence of impurities

STORAGE IN NRAM  By

positioning of charges.

 Data  An

retained until overwritten or resetted.

electric field moves over array of 

nanotubes.  Read

and write by an electric field

STORAGE IN NRAM

ADVANTAGES Faster Low

& denser

power consumption

Data

storage

Boot

up

LIMITATIONS Over Is

supply of DRAM

relatively costly

NRAM

is still in research phase

USES OF NRAM  Flash

memories into camera and cell

phone  High

speed network server

 Instant  Faster

booting

and denser

CONCLUSION  We

could say that the prospects of  nanotechnology are very bright.

 Nanotechnology

will be an undeniable force in near future

 Beginning

&usage of NRAM will give rise to instant ON computers

REFERENCES  10

Emerging technologies – MIT technology

review  Nano

Engineered Memory solutions-IEEE

 journal  10

tech companies for next 10 years-IEEE