MAGNETIC STORAGE MEDIA INCLUDING NANOTUBES CONTAINING MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES

摘要

A magnetic storage medium is formed of magnetic nanoparticles that are encapsulated within nanotubes, which are arranged in a substrate to facilitate the reading and writing of information by a read/write head. The substrate may be flexible or rigid. Information is stored on the magnetic nanoparticles via the read/write head of a storage device. These magnetic nanoparticles are arranged into data tracks to store information through encapsulation within the carbon nanotubes. As carbon nanotubes are bendable, the carbon nanotubes may be arranged on flexible or rigid substrates, such as a polymer tape or disk for flexible media, or a glass substrate for rigid disk. A polymer may assist holding the nanoparticle-filled carbon tubes to the substrate.

主权项

1. A magnetic storage medium, comprising:
a data layer including a plurality of nanotubes that contain a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles, wherein the plurality of nanotubes is encapsulated in a matrix.