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Few human records survive for long, the 16 000-year-old Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, France, being one exception. Now
Few human records survive for long, the 16 000-year-old Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, France, being one exception. Now
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2013-09-24
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Few human records survive for long, the 16 000-year-old Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, France, being one exception. Now researchers led by Alex Zettl of the University of California, have devised a method that will, they reckon, let people store information electronically for a billion years.
Dr. Zettl and his colleagues constructed their memory cell by taking a particle of iron just a few billionths of a meter or nanometers(纳米)across and placing it inside a hollow carbon nanotube. They attached electrodes(电极)to either end of the tube. By applying a current, they were able to shuttle the particle back and forth. This provides a mechanism to create the "1" and "0" required for digital representation: if the particle is at one end it counts as a "1", and at the other end it is a "0".
The next challenge was to read this electronic information. The researchers found that when electrons flowed through the tube, they scattered when they came close to the particle. The particle’s position thus altered the nanotube’s electrical resistance on a local scale. Although they were unable to discover exactly how this happens, they were able to use the effect to read the stored information.
What makes the technique so durable is that the particle’s repeated movement does not damage the walls of the tube. That is not only because the lining of the tube is so hard; it is also because friction is almost negligible when working at such small scales.
Theoretical studies suggest that the system should retain information for a long time. To switch spontaneously from a "1" to a "0" would entail(使必要)the particle moving some 200 nanometers along the tube using thermal energy. At room temperature, the odds(几率)of that happening are once in a billion years. In tests, the stored digital information was found to be remarkably stable. Yet the distance between the ends of the tube remains small enough to allow for speedy reading and writing of the memory cell when it is in use. The next challenge will be to create an electronic memory that has millions of cells instead of just one. But if Dr. Zettl succeeds in commercializing this technology, digital decay itself could become a thing of the past.
What is Alex Zettl’s research aiming at?
选项
A、Revealing the secret of preserving aged records.
B、Letting people memorize information permanently.
C、Making an electronic memory to retain records for long.
D、Putting his mechanism into the market.
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。定位句表明,Alex Zettl等人的研究会让人们长久地储存信息。由此可以推测,Alex Zettl等人研究的目的是C)“制造能够长久储存信息的电子存储器”。
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