Nanoscale field mapping in functional materials

该项目旨在开发工具，在比以前可能的更小的尺度上绘制物质内部的电场和磁场图。这些字段用于对数据存储微电子设备中的信息进行编码。由于现在世界产生的数据超过了它可以存储的数据量，人们正在寻找新的技术，通过以尽可能小的长度对信息进行编码来提高存储容量和能源效率。预计该项目产生的新的表征技术将使致力于下一代数据存储技术的学术和工业研究人员能够解决他们无法以其他方式解决的问题。

This project aims to develop tools to map electric and magnetic fields within matter on smaller-length scales than has previously been possible. Such fields are used for encoding information in data storage microelectronic devices. Since the world now generates more data than it can store, the search is on for new technologies to improve storage capacity and energy efficiency by encoding information at the smallest possible length scales. It is anticipated that the new characterisation techniques resulting from this project will enable academic and industrial researchers working on the next generation of data storage technology to solve problems they could not otherwise solve.