For handheld products such as cell phones and digital cameras to get smaller, manufacturers must also shrink the devices' silicon memory chips. But the tinier the chip, the more vulnerable it is to leaking the charge that stores data. Now researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Allentown, PA-based Agere Systems say they've devised a new-and inexpensive-way of fabricating leak-resistant memory that could provide chips with much greater storage capacity.

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