The scientists could write a 1 kilobyte (8,000 bits) message at 500 terabits per square inch.
Thats around 100 times more info per square inch than the most efficient hard drive ever created.
For instance, the 4-terabyte hard drives that are available today are about 1 terabit per square inch.
Put 8 chlorine atoms in a row and they form a byte.
He said this in his famous lecture Theres Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
This would be the limit at how small classical computer transistors could become.
What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?
However, this is strictly lab-bound, at least for now.
Anything past that and heat will disrupt the organization of the atoms.
But through this achievement we have certainly come a big step closer.
The research was published in the journalNature Nanotechnology.
source: www.techworm.net
