Now that you’ve been lured by the sensationalist headline, you’ll be eager to learn about the technique. Thomas Russell of UMass Amherst and Ting Xu of UC Berkeley have joined forces to create self-assembling arrays of chemically-dissimilar polymers that produce 3nm “memory” cells.
The technique is an environmentally-friendly approach that does not rely on the harsh chemicals or acids of photolithography which has thus far moved to 32nm for commercial production. In addition to its green roots, the researchers are also fond of its roots in existing commercial techniques. “The beauty of the method we developed is that it takes from processes already in use in the industry,” they said. “So it will be very easy to incorporate into the production line with little cost.”
With the polymer cells measuring up to 3nm in size, storage density could breach 10 terabytes per square inch. This capacity is more than 250 DVDs on a square inch of storage real estate.
As with any omg-do-want storage technology, we’ll add this to the pile with quantum electron holography, Millipede, and those mythical phosphorescent discs.
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