Atomic Data Storage: University Of Delft

Physicists Achieve Atomic Data Storage (+Video)

Michael Byrne | July 18, 2016

Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created a rewritable data-storage device capable of storing information at the level of single atoms representing single bits of information.
The technology, which is described in the current issue of Nature Nanotechnology, is capable of packing data as dense as 500 terabytes per square inch. Theoretically, the device could store the entire contents of the US Library of Congress within a 0.1-mm-wide cube—though the proof-of-concept demonstrated by the group topped out at 1 kilobyte.

"STM scan (96 nm wide, 126 nm tall) of the 1 kB memory, written to a section of Feynman’s lecture There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom (with text markup)."  Source; http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/kleinste-harddisk-ooit-schrijft-informatie-atoom-voor-atoom/

<more at http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/physicists-achieve-atomic-data-storage; related articles and links: https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/atomic-data-storage-device-developed (Atomic data-storage device developed. July 18, 2016) and http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/kleinste-harddisk-ooit-schrijft-informatie-atoom-voor-atoom/ (Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom. July 18, 2016)>