Carbon Ring Storage Could Make Magnetic Memory 1,000 Times More Dense

Researchers from Germany find a way to improve the density of magnetic data storage, by around a thousand times. The data will also last much longer than is possible today...

Today we are using Cobalt as the material of choice for magnetic data recording. The trouble is that the grains of Cobalt consist of about 50,000 atoms in a hexagonal close packed structure, and it is hard to reduce that number.


So Carbon rings storage should allow engineers to make much longer-lasting and higher-density memory.

Via MIT's TechnologyReview

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