Nanotechnology in Computers
If you open up a computer, you will see that it is made of many small chips and wires and other parts. One of those parts is called the hard drive. You are able to view pictures, listen to music, and play games on your computer because the hard drive stores information.
Hard drives are made up of small magnetic disks that store data, but these small disks cannot store an unlimited amount of information! Sometimes, people have to buy more hard drives because the one in their computer doesn’t hold as much data as they need it to.
With nanotechnology, scientists are trying to find ways to make smaller disks with higher storage capacity. By dealing with atoms and small particles, they are looking for a different way of storing a big amount of information that does not use the same method as the one the hard drives use. Scientists say that it is possible to store information by making light bounce between particles, and although they haven’t created an effective device that can do this, they are researching on it.
Hard drives are made up of small magnetic disks that store data, but these small disks cannot store an unlimited amount of information! Sometimes, people have to buy more hard drives because the one in their computer doesn’t hold as much data as they need it to.
With nanotechnology, scientists are trying to find ways to make smaller disks with higher storage capacity. By dealing with atoms and small particles, they are looking for a different way of storing a big amount of information that does not use the same method as the one the hard drives use. Scientists say that it is possible to store information by making light bounce between particles, and although they haven’t created an effective device that can do this, they are researching on it.