System for storing and retrieving information at the molecular l

Details System for storing and retrieving information at the molecular l System for storing and retrieving information at the molecular l

1975-02-12

1979-01-02

Fears, Terrell W.

Static information storage and retrieval

Radiant energy

Electron beam

365128, 313391, G11C 1126

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041330471

ABSTRACT:
Dislosed is a system for retrievably storing information in a storage medium comprising a laterally extending regular lattice of substantially identical units. Each unit is approximately the size of a large biological molecule or a virus (i.e. several hundred Angstroms or less), and can in fact be a single biological molecule, a single virus, or an equivalent particle or aggregate. Any individual unit can be selectively modified by a narrowly focused electron beam without affecting adjacent units, to thereby store (write in) information as a pattern of modified lattice units. After a lattice has been so modified, it can be stabilized by depositing thereon a thin metallic layer, and the stored information can be read out by a detecting electron beam.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3119099 (1964-01-01), Biernat
patent: 3215988 (1965-11-01), Clapp

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