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IBM researchers store one bit of magnetic information in just 12 atoms (by IBMResearchAlmaden)

IBM Research - Almaden physicist Andreas Heinrich explains the industry-wide need to examine the future of storage at the atomic scale and how he and his teammates started with 1 atom and a scanning tunneling microscope and eventually succeeded in storing one bit of magnetic information reliably in 12 atoms.

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    This video explains everything I wanted to know about data storage. Terrific finding too.
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