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.
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.