Title: Emerging resistive switching memories for environmentally friendly and disposable computing devices

Abstract

Recently, the lifetime of electronic devices has decreased to just about several months[1]. The disposal of these unused electronics constitutes the steep rising electronic waste (E-waste), which is currently over 50 million tons per year[2]. The solution to this problem lies in the total transformation of the electronics industry and the adoption of “Green electronics” ideas. In this work we present emerging memory devices fabricated using biological materials such as chitosan[3-5] and cow milk as the active layers. These devices are emerging, and thus have better functionality compared to the current memory giants, i.e., dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and Flash memories. Furthermore, these devices have shown compatibility with on-chip computing (Neuromorphic computing). Our devices were fabricated in electricity- and heat-free processes and have low power consumption prospects. Therefore, they adhere to environmental regulations and green computing ideas.