About the DSSC
The Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) at Carnegie Mellon University is an interdisciplinary research and educational organization whose mission is to advance information storage technologies. Faculty and students from a wide range of disciplines at Carnegie Mellon are developing the fundamental understanding of the science and advanced engineering methods required for future generations of information storage systems.
The DSSC is a collaborative effort between several Carnegie Mellon departments:
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- Learn more about the history of DSSC.
- Directions to the DSSC.
DSSC Directors Deliver Invited Talks at MORIS
DSSC Director and ABB Professor of Engineering Jimmy Zhu and DSSC Associate Director and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor James A. Bain will both deliver invited talks at the Magnetics and Optics Research International Symposium for New Storage Technology (MORIS). Scheduled for June 15–18 in Hyogo, Japan, the symposium will cover combined effects of optical, thermal and magnetic natures from fundamental new materials to application of functional media. The single-session conference, held annually, features invited talks and poster presentations of contributed papers.
Barmak Develops Nanoscale Mapping Process for Tracking Structures
Materials Science and Engineering Professor Katayun Barmak and Microscopy Lab Supervisor Thomas Nuhfer have become the first materials scientists worldwide to successfully map polycrystalline structures on a nanoscale. This mapping ability has come at the same time that Barmak and her colleagues found that physical properties of some structures change at the nanoscale.
TFAN UHV System Joins Laboratory Arsenal
Carnegie Mellon faculty, students and researchers — including those in the Data Storage Systems Center — have a new instrument to add to their data storage research toolbox: an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system outfitted with a scanning probe microscope and other surface analysis tools that will aid researchers working on the Tip-Directed Field-Enhanced Nanofabrication (TFAN) project.
The TFAN UHV system, purchased from RHK Technology in Troy, Mich., can reduce atmospheric pressure to 1x10-10 torr and contains four chambers, each playing a unique role and offering different instrumentation for preparing, mapping and — possibly — patterning small surfaces. Each chamber is separated from its neighbors by a gate valve that controls contamination and keeps the pressure of each chamber intact, regardless of what happens in the other chambers.
Events
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2009 Spring Technical Review
March 24
For more information on DSSC events, contact Pat Grieco.
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