12-01 :: January 2012
nanotimes
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Within seconds, NanoFocus´ non-contact measurement systems deliver precise 3D data of technical surfaces in the micro and nanometer ranges. To always provide the best solutions to our customers, we internally design, develop and produce hardware and soft- ware for more than 15 years.
Now, NanoFocus goes inline too – same NanoFocus precision with over 1 million measure- ments per second to satisfy a broad range of industrial applications.
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cientists from IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) have successfully demonstrated the ability to store
information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms. This is significantly less than today’s disk drives, which use about one million atoms to store a single bit of information. The ability to manipulate matter by its most basic components – atom by atom – could lead to the vital understanding necessary to build smaller, faster and more energy-efficient devices. The scientists at IBM Research used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to atomically engineer a grouping of twelve antiferromagnetically coupled atoms that stored a bit of data for hours at low tem- peratures. Taking advantage of their inherent alterna- ting magnetic spin directions, they demonstrated the ability to pack adjacent magnetic bits much closer together than was previously possible. This greatly increased the magnetic storage density without dis- rupting the state of neighboring bits.
Sebastian Loth, Susanne Baumann, Christopher P. Lutz, D. M. Eigler, Andreas J. Heinrich: Bistability in Atomic-Scale Antiferromagnets, In: Science Magazine, Vol. 335(2012), No. 6065, January 13, 2012, Pages 196-199,DOI10.1126/ science.1214131:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1214131 0-99
IBM (NYSE: IBM) also set a new U.S. patent record in 2011, marking the 19th consecutive year that the company has led the annual list of patent recipients. IBM inventors earned a record 6,180 U.S. patents in 2011, more than quadrupling Hewlett-Packard’s issuances and exceeding by six times those of Oracle/ Sun.
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