NanoLithography used to etch 30 million page library time vault delivered to the Moon

Our collaborator - Stamper Technology invented a technology to securely store documents longer than any known medium including chiseled ancient stones.  We have solved the permanence issue that plagues current digital storage that is ephemeral with time and neglect.  By nano etching data into a nickel substrate, it will outlast to civilizations and is impervious to extreme conditions and survive most disasters.   Today most of the world’s knowledge and individual legacies are stored on a digital device that over a short period of time, will disappear if they are not regenerated on new form of media.  Digital encryption has gotten so sophisticated that if a chunk of the bitstream is damaged, information is lost forever, assuming there is a reader available that can retrieve the information in a few decades.  Even the cloud is relegated to just bits on spinning discs that will eventually stop functioning.   The technology has archived a 30-million-page library on the Moon as well as ancient texts for the Buddhists, entire written works of Shakespeare, broke the world’s record for printed number of pi (25 million digits) in a square inch and serves as a self-authenticated security document (used on all Microsoft discs). RIT students are involved in developing the process for patterning and etching with the support from CEIS, Center for Emerging & Innovative Sciences, University of Rochester.