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This paper discusses an alternative storage approach to conventional magnetic data storage. The approach uses a 32x32 array of scanning probe microscopes working in parallel to read and write data as small indentations in a polymer storage medium. The results have densities of
100-200 Gbit/in2. At such densities it is shown that well over half the array works, and at lower densities more than 80% of levers are working.
By: M. I. Lutwyche, M. Despont, U. Drechsler, U. Dürig, W. Häberle, H. Rothuizen, R. Stutz, R. Widmer, G. K. Binnig and P. Vettiger
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, volume 77, (no 20), pages 3299-3301 in 2000
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