Wang Lei, Yang Ci Hui, Wen Jing, Gong Si Di, Peng Yuan Xiu
School of Information Engineering, Nanchang HangKong University, Nanchang, 330063, Peoples' Republic China.
Nanoscale Res Lett. 2016 Dec;11(1):342. doi: 10.1186/s11671-016-1556-9. Epub 2016 Jul 25.
The current world is in the age of big data where the total amount of global digital data is growing up at an incredible rate. This indeed necessitates a drastic enhancement on the capacity of conventional data storage devices that are, however, suffering from their respective physical drawbacks. Under this circumstance, it is essential to aggressively explore and develop alternative promising mass storage devices, leading to the presence of probe-based storage devices. In this paper, the physical principles and the current status of several different probe storage devices, including thermo-mechanical probe memory, magnetic probe memory, ferroelectric probe memory, and phase-change probe memory, are reviewed in details, as well as their respective merits and weakness. This paper provides an overview of the emerging probe memories potentially for next generation storage device so as to motivate the exploration of more innovative technologies to push forward the development of the probe storage devices.
当今世界正处于大数据时代,全球数字数据总量正以惊人的速度增长。这确实需要大幅提高传统数据存储设备的容量,然而,这些设备正面临着各自的物理缺陷。在这种情况下,积极探索和开发有前景的替代大容量存储设备至关重要,从而催生了基于探针的存储设备。本文详细综述了几种不同的探针存储设备的物理原理和现状,包括热机械探针存储器、磁探针存储器、铁电探针存储器和相变探针存储器,以及它们各自的优缺点。本文概述了有望用于下一代存储设备的新兴探针存储器,以激励探索更多创新技术,推动探针存储设备的发展。