Berkeley Lab
More computer memory at less cost
The total available storage in the world is projected to be roughly 600 exabytes by mid-2009. To cope with these demands, some 500 million hard disks were produced in 2007. The number is expected to pass the one billion mark in the ensuing five years.
The NEXUS DLC-X Coating System with Filtered Cathodic Arc Technology has the potential to make these products much better by increasing their capacity and decreasing their size, further reducing the cost per stored byte. It was developed by Andre Anders of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator & Fusion Research Division and scientists from Veeco Instruments, Inc.
The technology applies dense, even, and unprecedentedly thin films of diamond-like carbon to the read/write head assemblies of computer hard disks. The pulsed, filtered cathodic arc delivers thinner coatings with the requisite evenness than chemical vapor
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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More computer memory at less cost
The total available storage in the world is projected to be roughly 600 exabytes by mid-2009. To cope with these demands, some 500 million hard disks were produced in 2007. The number is expected to pass the one billion mark in the ensuing five years.
The NEXUS DLC-X Coating System with Filtered Cathodic Arc Technology has the potential to make these products much better by increasing their capacity and decreasing their size, further reducing the cost per stored byte. It was developed by Andre Anders of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator & Fusion Research Division and scientists from Veeco Instruments, Inc.
The technology applies dense, even, and unprecedentedly thin films of diamond-like carbon to the read/write head assemblies of computer hard disks. The pulsed, filtered cathodic arc delivers thinner coatings with the requisite evenness than chemical vapor
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
XBD200908-00618-06.TIF