Single Atom Serves as World's Smallest Magnet and Data Storage Device

[gary]

Originally Posted by Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum March 8 2017

An international team of researchers have produced the world’s smallest magnet and demonstrated that it’s possible to use that magnet—an individual atom—to store a single bit of data.


Until this latest research, led by teams at IBM Research Almaden and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, molecules were the smallest-ever data storage units.

Article and videos here :-
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/s...storage-device

[Dennis]

Thanks for the link Gary, how our world is shrinking…

“With one bit per atom, it would be conceivable to store an entire iTunes library of 35 million songs on a device no bigger than a credit card.”

Cheers

Dennis