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Areal density disk increase possibility
posted on 17 March 2008 17:39
Nature is going to print a paper about nanoscale changes that could lead to increased areal density for disk storage meaning more data could be stored on disk drives.
The Pittsburg University research paper, entitled Nanoscale Control of an Interfacial Metal-Insulator Transition at Room Temperature, demonstrated the setting up and rearing down of nanoscale conducting regions between two insulating chemicals: strontium titanate and lanthanum aluminate. The aim was to switch conductivity on and off and that was demonstrated.
It could lead to the packing of data bits on a disk recording surface closer to together but this would be years in the future.
[Phil Robson, news editor.]
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