Miniature Ultra-High Capacity Data Storage (MUHCS) in support of Strike and Mission Planning Navy SBIR FY2008.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2008.1 Topic No.: N08-022 Topic Title: Miniature Ultra-High Capacity Data Storage (MUHCS) in support of Strike and Mission Planning Proposal No.: N081-022-0176 Firm: NanoScale Storage Systems, Inc. 554 Greenmeadow Way San Jose, California 95129 Contact: William Oakley Phone: (408) 253-6459 Web Site: N/A Abstract: Development of disk media suitable for e-beam data recording using a modulated e-beam from a digitally gated Carbon NanoTube (CNT)emitter. Gated CNT emitters have been previously produced and tested by the Company, and a preliminary design of a Read/Write nanohead exists. The technology will lead to a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) technology with very small nanoscale marks, potentially providing many terabytes of data on a small disk drive. Mark sizes down to 5nm should eventually be possible, providing 100X the data density of magnetic drives. Substantial increases in data rates should also eventually be possible, and the large head-media separation allows the posibility of removable media. Both rewritable and archival media are planned. Benefits: The CNT e-beam disk drive provides a path forward to much higher drive performance for the HDD industry. The possibility of removable media will have a huge impact and provide multiple-tens of terabytes per removable/archival disk. This enables a quantum leap in mass data storage and the replacement of all tape drives and tape libraries, providing far better performance in a much smaller lower power system. With archival media, data migration will become obsolete, saving many hundreds of millions of dollars per yearin industry and Government. Return