Time-resolved measurement in a memory device
(PHYSorg.com Nanotechnology)

zAt the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate prospective memory devices. They should be fast, retain data reliably for a long time and also be cheap. So-called magnetic RAM (MRAM) achieves this quadrature of the circle by combining fast switching via electric currents with durable data storage in magnetic materials.