MEMS-based integrated-circuit mass-storage systems
Larry Richard Carley, Gregory R. Ganger, David F. Nagle · Communications of the ACM · 2000
> 100+%-PER-YEAR CAPACITY GROWTH RATE CONTINUES TO OUTPACE THE 60%-PER-YEAR GROWTH RATE OF SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORIES, ACCORDING TO THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRIES ASSOCI- ATION, ALLOWING DISK DRIVES TO MAINTAIN AND REINFORCE THEIR STATUS AS THE MOST COST-EFFECTIVE NONVOLATILE STORAGE SOLUTION AVAILABLE FOR COMPUTERS AND FOR FUTURE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PRODUCTS. UNFORTUNATELY, DECREASES IN L. Richard Carley, Gregory R. Ganger, and David F. Nagle IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER, SAN JOSE, CA 74 November 43, No. 11COMMUNICA 0 A OF THE AE silicon-wafer-fabrication processes, these hybrid approaches typically abandon the rotating disk paradigm in favor of simple microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to position probe tips over the storage media