We’ve all assumed that anything’s possible when dabbling in the elusive realm of spintronics, and it seems as if a team at NC State University is out to prove just that. While using their newfound free time on Saturdays (you know, given that the football team has quit mid-season), Dr. Jagdish Narayan and company have utilized the process of selective doping in order to construct a new type of metallic ceramic that could be used to create a “fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text.” The material could also be used (in theory, anyway) to create a new generation of ceramic engines that could withstand twice the heat of normal engines and hit MPG ratings of 80. Granted, this all sounds like wishful thinking at the moment, but we wouldn’t put it past the whiz kids in Raleigh to bring this stuff to market. Too bad the athletic director doesn’t posses the same type of initiative.
[Thanks, Joel]
NC State gurus develop new material to boost data storage, conserve energy originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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