Nanotube Vibrations Can Be Used To Store Data

As the world moves towards big data storage, the engineers, physicists and scientists are faced with a new challenge - developing new data storage mechanisms. A team of researchers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) has found out that the nanotubes can be used to store energy in the form of processed quantum mechanical vibrations. A carbon nanotube clamped at ends can be exited to oscillate. The team discovered that contrary to the belief that such a vibration system would be highly damped and the vibrations would die out quickly; the string vibrated more than a million times - allowing the information to be stored for about one second. Though that might sound like a very short time to you and me, the TUM team says that one second is a long time to work with.


The team found out ways to write and read information 'optoelectronically' - by placing electric field near the vibrating nanotube so that they could select two of the several equivalent states of the string. The team further believes that this is an important discovery and may take us a step closer to realising a quantum computer.


We wish the team all the best!

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