Towards Gigayear Storage Using a Silicon-Nitride/Tungsten Based Medium
Emerging Technologies
2013-10-14 v1 Popular Physics
Physics and Society
Abstract
Current digital data storage systems are able to store huge amounts of data. Even though the data density of digital information storage has increased tremendously over the last few decades, the data longevity is limited to only a few decades. If we want to preserve anything about the human race which can outlast the human race itself, we require a data storage medium designed to last for 1 million to 1 billion years. In this paper a medium is investigated consisting of tungsten encapsulated by siliconnitride which, according to elevated temperature tests, will last for well over the suggested time.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.2961,
title = {Towards Gigayear Storage Using a Silicon-Nitride/Tungsten Based Medium},
author = {Jeroen de Vries and Dimitri Schellenberg and Leon Abelmann and Andreas Manz and Miko Elwenspoek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2961},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
19 pages, 11 figures