Ceramic Semi-Conductors?

Dr. Jagdish Narayan, a researcher at North Carolina State University, has developed a new ceramic material that has exciting applications in semi-conductor technology. By adding some strategically selected impurities to their ceramics research, they have created a chip that can hold one bit of data in a space that is 90% smaller than existing technologies. Narayan says,

"Instead of making a chip that stores 20 gigabytes, you have one that can handle one terabyte, or 50 times more data."

This development is extremely exciting. If the research turns out to be scalable and mass-producible, then it could lead to the spread technical ceramics applications outside of areas like ceramic wear components and such.