{"id":28022,"date":"2016-07-19T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/atomic-data-storage-is-still-way-off-from-practicality-500-terabits-per-square-inch-at-196%cb%9ac-in-a-vacuum-chamber"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:05:31","slug":"atomic-data-storage-is-still-way-off-from-practicality-500-terabits-per-square-inch-at-196%cb%9ac-in-a-vacuum-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/atomic-data-storage-is-still-way-off-from-practicality-500-terabits-per-square-inch-at-196%cb%9ac-in-a-vacuum-chamber","title":{"rendered":"Atomic data storage is still way off from practicality \u2014 500 Terabits per square inch at &minus;196\u02daC in a vacuum chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZcU-sZJkh_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every day, modern society creates more than a billion gigabytes of new data. To store all this data, it is increasingly important that each single bit occupies as little space as possible. A team of scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University managed to bring this reduction to the ultimate limit: they built a memory of 1 kilobyte (8,000 bits), where each bit is represented by the position of one single chlorine atom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a single post stamp\u201d, says lead-scientist Sander Otte.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tudelft.nl\/en\/current\/latest-news\/article\/detail\/kleinste-harddisk-ooit-schrijft-informatie-atoom-voor-atoom\/\">Read More on Delft University<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futuristech.info\/posts\/atomic-data-storage-is-still-way-off-from-practicality-500-terabits-per-square-inch-at-196-c-in-a-vacuum-chamber\">https:\/\/futuristech.info\/posts\/atomic-data-storage-is-still-...um-chamber<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, modern society creates more than a billion gigabytes of new data. To store all this data, it is increasingly important that each single bit occupies as little space as possible. A team of scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University managed to bring this reduction to the ultimate limit: they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61124,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022\/revisions\/61124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}