In hard disk drives, digital information is stored and retrieved magnetically by a “read head” that flies over the disk within tens of nanometers of its surface. Figure 1 is a photograph of a read ...

In digital circuits, insulating dielectrics separate the conducting parts (wire interconnects and transistors) from one another. As components have scaled down and transistors have gotten closer and ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Standards, in a scientific context, have a much larger role in our society than just agreeing measurements. As the British Standards Institution (BSI) explains it, put at its ...