200Pb Drive
Imagine the rebuild time on that drive.
While its students may not have managed a win in the cluster compo smackdown last month, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) scored a resounding victory for storage technology when its researchers managed to read and write a bit of information from a single molecule. Toshio Miyamachi, first author of the study and a …
How about we use existing technology to address smaller memory locations. In nand memory this wouldn't be a problem. Just a layer of addresses underneath the memory which acts like a controller (ie binary info send to one address block which will disperse the bits into the right memory lane below)
Just my two cents...
Brilliant! The BOFH gets more ammo to apply Management Stack Theory
And of course spell checkers go bananas!
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It's open access, and there is no need for vague speculation in the article.
According to figure 3b and 4d, the size of the molecular assembly is some 3 nm wide. That's neither 1 pm, nor 30,000 to 50,000 pm. Of course neither pm nor nm are an official Reg. units.
The described spintronics work at 4.6 K on a very clean copper (100) / CuN surface. For a honest comparison to other kinds of memory, you'll have to count the substrate atoms as well, because they are crucial to the device, but I guess it would make the claim less spectacular. As would counting the infrastructure for cooling and moving the STM tip.
I still think the IBM millipede concept is more interesting, but it looks like they missed their 2007 deadline for bringing a device to the market.
... but do you remember those 1MB Winchester disks that used to take up an entire tabletop and couldn't withstand a small nudge without crashing? Yes, that was only 30-odd years ago. It's called research and development. The emphasis here is now on the *development*.
Bloody journalists.
"Jarillo-Herrero and his team determined that illuminating graphene using a laser, results in variable heating of the material. The light heats graphene’s electrons that transmit current, but it does not heat the carbon nuclei lattice, which makes the backbone of the material. This temperature difference called as ‘hot-carrier’ response is responsible for production of the electricity flow."
http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=23557