Miniature Ultra-High Capacity Data Storage (MUHCS) in support of Strike and Mission Planning

Development of disk media suitable for e-beam data recording using a modulated e-beam from a digitally gated Carbon NanoTube (CNT)emitter. Gated CNT emitters have been previously produced and tested by the Company, and a preliminary design of a Read/Write nanohead exists. The technology will lead to a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) technology with very small nanoscale marks, potentially providing many terabytes of data on a small disk drive. Mark sizes down to 5nm should eventually be possible, providing 100X the data density of magnetic drives. Substantial increases in data rates should also eventually be possible, and the large head-media separation allows the posibility of removable media. Both rewritable and archival media are planned.