Posted on 06/30/2021 4:16:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
According to the researchers, the new technology proposes a way for storing electric information in the thinnest unit known to science, in one of the most stable and inert materials in nature. The allowed quantum-mechanical electron tunneling through the atomically thin film may boost the information reading process much beyond current technologies.
"Our research stems from curiosity about the behavior of atoms and electrons in solid materials, which has generated many of the technologies supporting our modern way of life," says Dr. Shalom. "We (and many other scientists) try to understand, predict, and even control the fascinating properties of these particles as they condense into an ordered structure that we call a crystal. At the heart of the computer, for example, lies a tiny crystalline device designed to switch between two states indicating different responses—'yes' or 'no," 'up' or 'down' etc. Without this dichotomy—it is not possible to encode and process information. The practical challenge is to find a mechanism that would enable switching in a small, fast, and inexpensive device."
Current state-of-the-art devices consist of tiny crystals that contain only about a million atoms (about a hundred atoms in height, width, and thickness) so that a million of these devices can be squeezed about a million times into the area of one coin, with each device switching at a speed of about a million times per second.
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Biden’s or AOC’s brain?
The Lord managed to get one (1) Adam at a time..
The thickness of Time magazine?
I thought they were storing 16 bits of information in the quantum spin states of an electron already...so it would be hexadecimal instead of binary and the switching would be very fast. Way smaller and faster tban 2 atoms thick. Maybe the popular science article I read was wrong.
If one bit is two states only its binary .. 4 bits can have 16 states Combination... its still 4 binary bits but just easier to write in hex
0000=0
0001=1
0010=2
0011=3
0100=4
0101=5
0110=6
0111=7
1000=8
1001=9
1010=A
1011=B
1100=C
1101=D
1110=E
1111=F
Rd later.
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