X-bit labs

Started by: MTX | Date 02/03/05

Comments: 2 | Last Comment:  02/03/05

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1. Excellent work, HP! I will have to check out the paper right away!

I have read the paper, and it is good! The devices work well and are extremely simple. For the moment, problems include:

1. Expensive materials. They need titanium and platinum for manufacture.
2. Large. They are 12-16 square um in size each.
3. Slow. They switch at about 10-100Hz.
4. Power-hungry. Off-state they require 10^-7A, on-state, 10^-3A.
5. Unreliable. They last about 100 cycles.

However the paper says that remedies for these were not within its scope, and acknowledges that these problems will need to be solved before it can be used. In that sense, the press release certainly is "forward-looking." This is a proof of concept only.

I encourage other people to read the paper: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JAPIAU000097000003034301000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes

Anton: your reference for the original article (which I notice is almost an exact copy of the HP press release without a proper reference) is http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2005/050201a.html (HP, Palo Alto, Calif., Feb. 1, 2005). :)

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