1956 IBM Model 350 Hard Drive

5MB! 2000 lbs $3,000/month

Just like Moore’s Law exponentially GBs 1980 1990 2000 2010 Time

Just like Moore’s Law $/GB Time exponentially 1980 1990 2000 2010 $1,000,000 exponentially $/GB $1,000 $1 1980 1990 2000 2010 Time

Trillions of tiny magnets 50 nm 100 nm Trillions of tiny magnets

tiny electromagnet 7200 rpm

Electromagnet Flying at 10 m/s 2 nm Hard Disk

600 mph 50 nm Ground

Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Next technology = Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording

Scientific American Not so scientific 10,000 nm laser beam diffraction limit 1 Bit

My research: focus light to 20 nm for $1 10,000 nm laser beam diffraction limit 1 Bit My research: focus light to 20 nm for $1

Antennas (really tiny ones) λ = 800 nm Light

Most efficient antenna?

commercial in 2 – 3 years