In Netherlands, the experts at the Delft University of Technology have developed the storage medium proved to be the densest one.
In this new storage medium, the positions of chlorine atoms are used as bits of data. We can know aout the procedure of this atomic storage here below.

How Does it Work?

Through this atomic storage, just 100 nanometer of storage can be used to store 1 KB of data. In this capacity, you can expect to store 62.5 Terabytes of data in the space of just one square inch. The reason for this massive storage space is that as compared to conventional hard disk drives, the atomic storage is 500 times denser.

A scanning tunneling microscope is the technique used by scientists to store this data after which chlorine atoms are mixed on surface of copper atoms. Like QR code shows the position and condition of these atoms, it creates data blocks with markers the same way.

The Tech is Not Ready for Prime Time Yet

But this technology is currently not available for use in the market as a very cold temperature (-196.15 Celsius) and a very clean environment is required to run this technology at the moment. Currently, the servers under load have 40-50 degree Celsius temperatures which means this technology could not be used in today’s computing systems.

Applications for Atomic Storage

But the researchers are hopeful to change this storage system quite soon to work under normal temperatures. Soon after the adoption of all requirements of the day in this storage material (good speed with easy read and write procedure) then we can see this technology in our USB drives, phones and other such things. After the emergence of VR media and 4K content, this could be a revolution in storage devices.