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Researchers Claim Shuttle Memory Tech could Save Data for Billions of Years

Posted 06/10/09 at 04:00:00 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Led by physicist Alex Zettl, a team of eggheads from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkley have demonstrated a form of nanotube archival memory capable of storing memory bits for a billion years, the researchers say.

The team put together a prototype device based on a nanoscale iron particle moving along a carbon nanotube like a shuttle. It measures about 1/50,000th the width of a human hair and was created in a single step pyrolysis of ferrocene in argon at 1,000C. Technical details aside, the team says the steps it took are compatible with today's semiconductor manufacturing techniques.

The end result is a device that can be written to and read from using conventional voltages, however remains years away from practical application. Nevertheless, the promise of long-lasting data retention could be huge for large-scale archival applications in the future.

Much more info here, along with the abstract (in PDF form) here.

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avatarJust like Stargate and the Ancients

Submitted by dracoress on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 4:08am

We'll now be able to seed the galaxy with Stargates and keep all the addresses someplace for future humans to find.

 

Just hope they don't have to use the big head grabby brain downloader thingy.....could cause headaches.

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