ABSTRACT
SERGEI F. LYUKSYUTOV,12 EROL SANCAKTAR,*2 GRIGORISIGALOV,3 PAVEL B. PARAMONOV12 and JONGDAE KIM2 department of Physics, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA 2 Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA
1. INTRODUCTION
In the 21st century, the nanometer will very likely play a role similar to the one played by the micrometer in the 20th century. Major areas in which nanometer must replace micrometer are data storage, including three-dimensional (3-D) storage, optical device fabrication (including optical filters, wavelength division multiplexers and sensors) and biomedical devices. Unlike our novel 3-D data storage method, data storage based on magnetism is 2-D and there is no clear way for achieving 3-D nanoscale with this method in a foreseeable future.
