The nanotechnologies, which consist in “playing” with particles of the size of the molecules and atoms, did not finish surprising us…
Thus Almaden Research Center, center of R & D of IBM with San Jose, in California, revealed two discovered in this field, based on the characteristic of the atoms to behave like magnets.
The researchers of IBM study this property, so called “magnetic anisotropy” in order to modify the magnetic orientation of an iron atom.
Their research carries in priority on the stability of this orientation, the principal difficulty of the nanotechnologies which must compose with the instability of the world of infinitely small.
For that, they were based on research of their colleagues of Zurich, in Switzerland, who study the vibration of a molecule according to his state. What to imagine the creation of “switchs” (switches) molecular functioning on the same model as those which are present on a computer.
By combining their discovered research and these two, the scientists of IBM think of exceeding from now on the level of the speculations and of having the bases to develop the storage of the future.
With the capacity to store 30.000 complete films, that is to say more one will tera bytes, in the volume of a iPod.
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