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TERAMAGSTOR - Terabit Magnetic Storage Technology

The project aims, through a systems approach, at designing, fabricating and testing future perpendicular magnetic storage media with areal density larger than 1 Tbit/in2.

The TERAMAGSTOR project aims, through a systems approach, at designing, fabricating and testing future perpendicular magnetic storage media with areal density larger than 1 Tbit/in2. To overcome the technological barriers limiting the areal density, the proposed approaches addressed both key media feasibility issues (thermal stability, writability, signal to noise ratio) and low-cost, high-throughput media fabrication methods. The approaches were based on the development of advanced film media (exchange spring and percolated media), nanolithographically patterned and nanoparticles media patterned by templates through an integration of professional skills (chemists, physicists, engineers, materials scientists). The activity has covered media preparation and characterisation, magnetization reversal processes, numerical micromagnetic simulations, measurements of write/read recording characteristics and signal modelling and processing. The innovation and the ultimate goal was to produce the first EU 1.8 /2.5 HD with density in excess of 1 Tbit/in2 , through a synergistic approach involving top level  EU teams and the exploitation of the results by the two partner Industries. It was based on a previous work developed by most of the consortium members, which led to a record of 210 Gbits/in2 (and was awarded a finalist Descartes prize in 2005).

Thematic Area: ICT, Security
Financing Body: EU-FP7
Start year: 2008
End year: 2011
Call: ICT -FP7/ STREP
Acronym: TERAMAGSTOR
Title: Terabit Magnetic Storage Technology
Budget ISM (k€): 436
ISM Role: Unit Coordinator
ISM Referent: Elisabetta Agostinelli
Other relevant roles: Alberto Maria Testa WP Leader
Other ISM staff involved: Alberto  Maria Testa, Gaspare Varvaro, Sara Laureti
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/224001/it
Laboratory: nM2-Lab

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