Nanotechnology helps in improving Storage Capacity
27 April 2008Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a new technology based molecular-size switch that can increase dramatically the data storage capacity of iPod’s without increasing the size of the storage devices. Professor Lee Cronin and Dr. Malcolm Kadodwala have tried to increase the conventional storage of 3.3 gigabytes per square inch to a new high of 500, 000 gigabytes.
This is really a breakthrough by the leading scientists and if successfully implemented the number of transistors per chip could be well over one billion from the current limit of 200 million.
Researchers assembled a functional nanocluster in which two electron donating group are kept exactly 0.32 nm apart. This especial type of arrangement produces a new molecule-based switch that can be made functional using an electric field.
Researchers further took these nanoscake clusters and placed these onto a gold or carbon to control the switching ability. Grafting the nanostructures on gold or carbon will further bridge the gap between the conventional transistor and advanced components required for nanoscale plastic electronics.
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