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          | Description: 
             The top image shows the 
            one millimeter square array of electrodes that connect HP Labs' molecular 
            memory device to the outside world. The next image shows the electrodes 
            connected to the device's much smaller grid of nanowires. The third 
            image shows the grid, and the fourth is a close-up of the nanowires. 
            Each wire is 40 millionths of a millimeter wide, and each junction 
            contains 1,000 molecules that act as an electrical switch that stores 
            a bit. |   
          | Source: 
             HP Labs |   
          | Story:  Molecule 
            chip demoed TRN September 18/25, 2002
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          | TRN Categories: 
             Biological, Chemical, DNA 
            and Molecular Computing; Integrated Circuits; Data Storage Technology; 
            Nanotechnology |   
          | Form: 
             Still |  |