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Turning diamonds' defects into long-term 3-D data storage

  • Written by Siddharth Dhomkar, Postdoctoral Associate in Physics, City College of New York
imageDiamonds are a data storers' best friend?Diamond image via www.shutterstock.com

With the amount of data storage required for our daily lives growing and growing, and currently available technology being almost saturated, we’re in desparate need of a new method of data storage. The standard magnetic hard disk drive (HDD) – like...

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