Organic Flash Memory makes flexible electronics more feasible
Flexible memory devices have a new companion in the Organic Flash Memory developed by the engineers at the University of Tokyo. The brainchild of a research group led by Takeo Someya and Tsuyoshi Sekitani, the non-volatile Organic Flash Memory is based on the same principle of the flash memory, which allows the data to be written and erased over 1,000 times.
The flexible memory device is made in a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) resin sheet with a memory array. Flexible to a great degree, the sheet can be bent until its curvature radius reaches 6mm, and still it shows no mechanical or electrical degradation. Well, if all goes well, as the researchers plan an extension of memory retention time, from one day it manages now, we could see the flexible non-volatile organic flash memory being used in large-area sensors, electronic paper and other electronic devices.
