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Writing data on atoms: researchers have found a way to write and retrieve data at the atomic level
Published: 26 July 2016
A team of researchers in the Netherlands has聽developed the means聽to store data at the atomic level. This technique would allow 502 terabytes of data to fit into one square inch. According to the authors, "[t]ranslating the two-dimensional storage density presented here to three dimensions, would ... allow the storage of the entire US Library of Congress in a cube 100鈥吢祄 wide."聽At the moment, the memory array can operate up to a temperature of 77 K (about -210 C), meaning that the technology would be restricted to data centres capable of maintaining such temperatures. .听