According to the original 2010 announcement (1), that's exactly why the phenomenon went unexploited for so long: “Most people, when they saw this effect, would

According to the original 2010 announcement (1), that's exactly why the phenomenon went unexploited for so long: “Most people, when they saw this effect, would say, ‘Oh, we had silicon-oxide breakdown,’ and they throw it out,... It was just sitting there waiting to be exploited.” It's so simple it sounds too good to be true. Two terminals (not three), dielectric in between. High voltage to write (create/destroy the conduction path), low to read (at least the way I understood it). This thing can be stacked in 3D without a problem. (1) http://news.rice.edu/2010/09/01/nanocrystal-conductors-could-lead-to-massive-robust-3-d-storage/ http://news.rice.edu/2010/09/01/nanocrystal-conductors-could...