Scientists Develop Nanotechnology Which Holds 10TBs Per Square Inch

When I first heard about nanotechnology, I knew that nanoscale components will be revolutionary and that they will not have any real competitor for a long time although for the moment this technique is not exploited at full potential. A team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with fellow scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amhert have developed a new way to increase the storage capacity of electronics.

This new technology is based on self-assembling nanoscale elements and according to Ting Xu, co-author of the study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “the density achievable with the technology we’ve developed could potentially enable the contents of 250 DVDs to fit onto a surface the size of a quarter.”

In other words this is pretty impressive as the scientists manage to develop nanoscale elements that can hold data of 10 TBs / square inch (which means 125 GB of data  per square inch). Also, Thomas Russel, scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, added that they “can generate nearly perfect arrays over macroscopic surfaces where the density is over 15 times higher than anything achieved before, with that order of density, one could get a high-definition picture on a screen the size of a JumboTron.”

Imagine the enormous implications of this technology. Just think that this is only the beginning, and according to Mr. Xu “technique is more environmentally friendly than photolithography, which requires the use of harsh chemicals and acids.”

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