Single Atom Serves as World’s Smallest Magnet and Data Storage Device – IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/single-atom-serves-as-worlds-smallest-magnet-and-data-storage-device

An international team of researchers have produced the world’s smallest magnet and demonstrated that it’s possible to use that magnet—an individual atom—to store a single bit of data.

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    IBM Researchers Prove It Is Possible To Store Data In a Single Atom
    https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/03/08/2257243/ibm-researchers-prove-it-is-possible-to-store-data-in-a-single-atom?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29

    In an experiment published today in Nature, IBM researchers have managed to read and write data to a single atom. A previous atomic storage technique, as mentioned by TechCrunch, doesn’t actually store data in the atom, but moves them around to form readable patterns. “This means that imbuing individual atoms with a 0 or 1 is the next major step forward and the next major barrier in storing data digitally, both increasing capacity by orders of magnitude and presenting a brand new challenge to engineers and physicists,” reports TechCrunch.

    Storing data in a single atom proved possible by IBM researchers
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/08/storing-data-in-a-single-atom-proved-possible-by-ibm-researchers/

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