dc.contributor.author | CROSS, GRAHAM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-03-10T16:15:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-03-10T16:15:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2002 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Vettiger, P., Cross, G., Despont, M., Drechsler, U., Durig, U., Gotsmann, B., Haberle, W., Lantz, M.A., Rothuizen, H.E., Stutz, R. and Binnig, G.K. `The "millipede" - nanotechnology entering data storage? in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 1, (1), 2002, pp 39-55 | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | |
dc.identifier.other | Y | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/28146 | |
dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
dc.description.abstract | Present a new scanning-probe-based data-storage concept called the "millipede" that combines ultrahigh density, terabit capacity, small form factor, and high data rate. Ultrahigh storage density has been demonstrated by a new thermomechanical local-probe technique to store, read back, and erase data in very thin polymer films. With this new technique, nanometer-sized bit indentations and pitch sizes have been made by a single cantilever/tip into thin polymer layers, resulting in a data storage densities of up to 1 Tb/in2. High data rates are achieved by parallel operation of large two-dimensional (2-D) atomic force microscope (AFM) arrays that have been batch-fabricated by silicon surface-micromachining techniques. The very large-scale integration (VLSI) of micro/nanomechanical devices (cantilevers/tips) on a single chip leads to the largest and densest 2-D array of 32?32 (1024) AFM cantilevers with integrated write/read/erase storage functionality ever built. Time-multiplexed electronics control the functional storage cycles for parallel operation of the millipede array chip. Initial areal densities of 100-200 Gb/in2 have been achieved with the 32?32 array chip | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The authors would like to give special thanks and appreciation
to H. Rohrer for his contribution to the initial millipede vision
and concept, and to their former collaborators, J. Brugger,
now at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
(Switzerland), M. I. Lutwyche, now at Seagate, Pittsburg, IL,
andW. P. King, now at Stanford University, CA, as well as to K.
Goodson, T. W. Kenny, and C. F. Quate of Stanford University.
The authors are also pleased to acknowledge the technical
contributions of, stimulating discussions with, and encouraging
support of their colleagues R. Beyeler, R. Germann, and
P. F. Seidler of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and
J. Mamin, D. Rugar, and B. D. Terris of the IBM Almaden
Research Center.
Special thanks go to J. Frommer, C. Hawker, B. van Horn,
H. Ito, V. Lee, J. Mamin, and R. Miller of the IBM Almaden
Research Center, J. D. Gelorme and J. M. Shaw of the IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, as well
as G. Hefferon and W. Moreau of IBM East Fishkill for their
enthusiastic support in identifying and synthesizing alternative
polymer media materials, which provide the basis for systematic
media investigation.
In addition, it is the authors? pleasure to acknowledge
their colleagues T. Albrecht, T. Antonakopoulos, P. Bachtold,
G. Cherubini, A. Dholakia, E. Eleftheriou, T. Loeliger,
H. Pozidis, A. Sharma, and S. Sri-Jayantha for their invaluable
contributions to their storage-system prototyping effort. | en |
dc.format.extent | 39-55 | en |
dc.format.extent | 366 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | IEEE | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 1 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 1 | en |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.subject | VLSI | en |
dc.subject | atomic force microscopy | en |
dc.subject | integrated memory circuits | en |
dc.subject | micromachining | en |
dc.subject | nanotechnology | en |
dc.subject | polymer films | en |
dc.title | The "millipede" - nanotechnology entering data storage | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
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