After that, says James Sheats, a researcher at Hewlett-Packard who is also Rolltronics' chief technical adviser, the next step will be to apply Dr Carey's work and make smaller, faster transistors on plastic film.
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Its storage potential is enormous: Dr Sheats says that initially, a single layer of memory the size of a sheet of writing paper will be able to store one billion bytes (a gigabyte) of data.