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Millipede Memory: A Replacement For Current Hard Drive and Flash Drive Memory

Millipede memory is a proposed non-volatile computer memory that uses nanoscopic pits burned into a polymer layer to store data at densities over 1 terabit per square inch. It uses an array of microscopic tips to read and write bits into the polymer film at the nanoscale level. This new technology promises much higher storage densities than flash drives or magnetic hard drives, and could potentially replace them. It offers advantages like lower power consumption, smaller size, and greater storage capacity than existing memory technologies.

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Millipede Memory: A Replacement For Current Hard Drive and Flash Drive Memory

Millipede memory is a proposed non-volatile computer memory that uses nanoscopic pits burned into a polymer layer to store data at densities over 1 terabit per square inch. It uses an array of microscopic tips to read and write bits into the polymer film at the nanoscale level. This new technology promises much higher storage densities than flash drives or magnetic hard drives, and could potentially replace them. It offers advantages like lower power consumption, smaller size, and greater storage capacity than existing memory technologies.

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Millipede Memory : A replacement for current Hard drive and Flash drive Memory

June 24, 2012 by Exzion Leave a Comment

Millipede is a non-volatile computer memory stored on nanoscopic pits burned into the surface of a thin polymer layer. It promises a data density of more than 1 terabit per square inch (1 gigabit per square millimeter), which is about the limit of the perpendicular recording hard drives. The chip combines the older techniques of MEMs (micro-electro-mechanical systems) with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). The technology was developed by IBMs Zurich research laboratory. WHY WE GO FOR MILLIPEDE MEMORY? The current secondary storage technology of the magnetic hard disk is approaching its limits. With the hard disk capabilities doubling every year, the magnetic storage would soon find its limit of storage density.Also, the flash drives are not excepted to achieve the proposed storage density in the immediate future. Due to these reasons, the Millipede memory is considered as the technology for the future. The Millipede memory is the proposed technological replacement for the current secondary technologies,once they find their limits. FEATURES OF MILLIPEDE MEMORY The millipede memory technology uses local probe techniques to write, read back and erase bits of information on a thermo-active polymer.This thermo-mechanical scanning probe based data storage features ultrahigh storage density, small form factor, terabit capacity, and high data rate. Millipede involves using sharp tips that are so small, a prototype contains 4,000 tips in a 7 square mm area. The tips penetrate a thin polymer film to represent the individual bits, and the tips indention is only about 10 nanometers.The tips are each on the end of a cantilever.

ADVANTAGES 1) Millipede create a higher areal density than flash memory while using about the same amount of operational power as flash memory. 2) Millipede devices would occupy about the same amount of space as flash memory, making it easier for CE device manufacturers to implement the technology. 3) Low power consumption than the magnetic storage. 4) Comparitively lighter to magnetic hard disks. 5) Ulta high areal storage densities. APPLICATION It will be of extensive application in portable devices like mobile phones, music players ,personal digital assistants (PDA) etc.

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