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