Storage density of 500 terabits per square inch --- 500 times better than the best commercial hard disk drive July 18, 2016
Scientists at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University have built a nanoscale data storage device containing 1 kilobyte (8,000 bits) with a storage density of 500 terabits per square inch (Tbpsi) — 500 times denser than the best commercial hard disk drive currently available. Each bit is represented by the position of one single chlorine atom.
Image: 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” (credit: TU Delft/Ottelab)
