Scientists at Arizona State University, have managed to obtain a brand new type of solid-state storage memory. It is aid to be very much efficient which is alleged to be not only cheaper, but may also be much more efficient than the current NAND pieces. This storage memory has been powered by a type of Nanotechnology, which is yet to be disclosed. This allows the creation of vast storage spaces which are cheap and very small in size.

This has been named as Programmable Metalization Cell (PMC). This PMC would be laying the initial foundation for the future’s new and large portable storage.

The PMC makes use of the nanotechnology to charge the pure copper molecules in the alloy. This has came out with spectacular results as compared to the current flash storage technology. The dream of any portable device owner would be to to have a memory device that saves a lot of energy and in a pseudo-infinite solid-state.

Electronic charges are being made use of by the Conventional Flash Memory for storage of information. Whereas the PMC makes use of the copper molecules, to create the nanowires and the information is stored in these nanowires, in the form of binary digits that is ones and zeroes.

Since it all occurs on nano-scale, it is very easy for imagining that a tiny space can contain an unimaginable amount of data. A positive charge would be passed through the memory, when the user wants to dispose off or delete the old data, causing the nanowires to dissolve, just like the links in a chain.

Michael Kozicki, director of ASU’s Center for Applied Nanoionics, reports that a thumb drive using this memory would store a terabyte of data. The current limitations in in portable electronic storage could be kicked off and you could record video of every event in your life and store it.

Though it may sound a little too fantastic, or too good, it has to be kept in mind that the flash-based memory density has bisected, whereas the capacity has yearly doubled. If capacities are continually increasing, then their price would also be following the same in the same speed. The new memory technology comes in handy that serves the next-generation of storage devices.