Highly parallel data storage system based on scanning probe arrays
- 13 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 77 (20), 3299-3301
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1326486
Abstract
This letter discusses an alternative storage approach to conventional magnetic data storage. The approach uses a 32×32 array of scanning probe microscopes working in parallel to read and write data as small indentations in a polymer storage medium. The results have densities of 100–200 Gbit/in.2. At such densities, it is shown that well over half the array works, and at lower densities more than 80% of levers are working.Keywords
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