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1、MEDIARELEASEPackinginsixtimesmorestoragedensitywiththehelpoftablesaltDrJoelYangfromtheInstituteofMaterialsResearchandEngineering(IMRE),aresearchinstituteofSingapore’sAgencyforScience,TechnologyandResearch(A*STAR),withcollaboratorsfromtheNationalUniversityofSin
2、gapore(NUS)andtheDataStorageInstitute(DSI)hasdevelopedaprocessthatcanincreasethedatarecordingdensityofharddisksto23.3Terabit/in,sixtimestherecordingdensityofcurrentmodels.Thekeyingredientinthemuchenhancedpatterningmethodthathepioneeredissodiumchloride,thechemi
3、calgradeofregulartablesalt.1.Singapore,14October2011–It’slikepackingyourclothesinyoursuitcasewhenyoutravel.Theneateryoupackthemthemoreyoucancarry.Inthesameway,theteamofscientistshasusednanopatterningtocloselypackmoreoftheminiaturestructuresthatholdinformationi
4、ntheformofbits,perunitarea.DrJoelYang’sIMREresearchteam,workingwithpeersfromA*STAR’sDSIandNUS,hasusednanopatterningtocreate2uniformarraysofmagneticbitsthatcanpotentiallystoreupto3.3Terabit/inofinformation,sixtimestherecordingdensityofcurrentdevices.Thismeansth
5、ataharddiskdrivethatholds1Terabyte(TB)ofdatatodaycould,inthefuture,hold6TBofinformationinthesamesizeusingthisnewtechnology.2.Conventionalharddiskshaverandomlydistributednanoscopicmagneticgrains-withafewtensofgrainsusedtoformonebit–thatenablethelatestharddiskmo
6、delstohold2upto0.5Terabit/inofinformation.TheIMRE-ledteamusedthebit-patternedmediaapproach,wheremagneticislandsarepatternedinaregularfashion,witheachsingleislandabletostoreonebitofinformation.3.“Whatwehaveshownisthatbitscanbepatternedmoredenselytogetherbyreduc
7、ingthenumberofprocessingsteps”,saidDrJoelYang,theIMREscientistwhoheadstheproject.Currenttechnologyusesverytiny‘grains’ofabout7-8nminsizedepositedonthesurfaceofstoragemedia.However,informationorasinglebit,isstoredinaclusterofthese‘grains’andnotinanysingle‘grain
8、’.IMRE’sbitsareabout10nminsizebutstoreinformationinasinglestructure.24.Themethodhasbeendemonstratedtoachievedata-storagecapabilityat1.9Terabit/in,2thoughbitsofupto3.3Terabit/indens
