Create super small storage device that stores 500 TB – The Trendy Type

A team of scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the University of Delft, Netherlands, has developed a report on the atomic scale denser 500 times the best hard drive available today.

1959, the American physicist Richard Feynman delivered his famous lecture There’s plenty of room at the bottom ( There’s plenty of room at the bottom ) where he argued that if we a platform that could arrange the atoms individual in an orderly pattern, it would be possible to store a piece of information in an atom.

in this sense, the researchers were able to build a memory of 1 kilobyte (8,000 bits ) in which each bit is represented by the position of a single chlorine atom .

“in theory, this storage density would allow all the books that have been created for humanity could be written in a single postage stamp “said Otte. In honor of the visionary Feynman, codified a section of the conference Feynman at 100 nanometers wide.

A tunneling microscope effect is able to distinguish the locations that contain a chlorine atom (presence) of not (vacant). “You could compare it to a puzzle,” Otte said. “Each bit consists of two positions on the surface of copper atoms, such that chlorine atom can slide back and forth between these two positions.” When chlorine atom is in the upper position, with empty space below becomes ’1′ . We call this a 1. Within this grid holes lost atoms appear. Because chlorine atoms are surrounded by other chlorine atoms , except near the holes, is They keep each other in place. Each position is contained in turn by other chlorine atoms , making this much more stable method. Each block has a marker, made of the same type of “holes” that the plot of chlorine atoms . The code also indicate whether a block is damaged, for example due to a contaminant or an error on the surface.

While this new approach has “excellent prospects in terms of stability and scalability,” the researchers do not believe arrive early to data centers.

the only drawback to this new memory is that it only works at the temperature achieved by using liquid nitrogen at -196 C. “the new system still requires Considerable work before it is ready for prime time, but it is an important proof of principle lays the foundation for the development of storage devices usable data at the atomic scale, “wrote Sander Otte on the LinkedIn professional network. “But with this achievement we have approached with great step.”