Future memory storage technology: Protein-based memory devices may facilitate surpassing Moore's law

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 773-775

  Renugopalakrishnan, V ^a   Khizroev, S ^a   Anand, H ^b   Pingzuo, Li ^a,c   Lindvold, L ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PurpleSolar   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Stensborg Inc   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteriorhodopsin (bR); Optical recording; Scanning near field optical microscopy (SNOM); Storage media

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL RECORDING; PROTEINS;

BACTERIORHODOPSIN (BR); BIOMOLECULES; MOORE'S LAW; STORAGE MEDIA SYSTEMS;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33846560695     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.888397     Document Type: Article

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