Diamond is always one of the favorite things for girls. It is a symbol of rich and marriage. People buy it, because it looks beautiful and perfect. However, in the future, diamond can not only be a luxury jewel, but also be a platform for people to save date.
Recently, “scientists have explored creating defects in diamonds for potential use in quantum computers. ” However, now, scientists found out that the defects in diamonds actually can store data like microscopic pits in CDs and DVDs help encode bits of data.
According to Siddharth Dhomkar, a physicist at the City College of New York,” We are the first group to demonstrate the possibility of using diamond as a platform for the superdense memory storage.” They found that they could “encode data in the form of negatively and neutrally charged defects.” This kind of data could be read and adjusted by lasers.
However, there are still some difficulties during the research. Dhomkar said,”each bit of data could be stored in a spot on the diamond only a few nanometers, or billionths of a meter, wide. This is much smaller than any similar features used in data storage.” But currently, they cannot “read or write data encoded using such tiny features.”
Although there is difficulty, these researchers showed the capability of encoding data in 3D. According to Dhomkar, “The researchers’ 3D data-storage technique could lead to a diamond-based storage disk that can store 100 times more data than a typical DVD”
Now, Dhomkar and his researchers are still working on the problem they faced. He said,”The storage density of such an optimized diamond chip would then be far greater than [that of] a conventional hard disk drive,” Maybe some day in the future, instead of buying DVD, rich people will buy diamond to watch movies.
source:
http://www.livescience.com/56655-diamonds-could-store-huge-amounts-of-data.html