Comments on: Memory goes down the nanotubes

The transistor dilemma has led researchers at the University of Nottingham to look into the viability of carbon nanotubes to help create fast, cheap, and compact memory that uses little power.

[gordianknots]

I think this article as an error. It should say that the three main kinds of computer memories are SRAM, DRAM and Flash, not SDRAM which is just clock synchronized DRAM.

[efranklin]

Thanks for the tip. Should be fixed now.

[willdryden]

The article has another error as well.

"Passing power through the nanotubes allows the inner tube to be pushed in and out of the outer tube. This telescoping action can either connect or disconnect the inner tube to an electrode, creating the 'zero' or 'one' states required to store information using binary code. When the power source is switched off, van der Waals force keeps the Inner tube in contact with the electrode.

If all the nanotues are in contact, doesn't that mean the memory is all ones or all zeros depending on how the system is set up to recognize it?