Science Visualized Computing

Supersmall device uses individual atoms to store data

Blocks and rows of chlorine atoms encode words

close-up of storage device with key for letters

ATOMIC CODE  Scientists manipulated chlorine atoms on a supersmall device to store an excerpt from a 1959 Richard Feynman lecture (a portion shown above with each letter translated).

TU Delft

By Emily Conover

- More than 2 years ago

These orderly patterns of dark blue dots indicate where individual chlorine atoms are missing from an otherwise regular grid of atoms.