This paper describes the development of a micro media actuator (MMA) for probe-based mass data storage. The process is based on dry etching and incorporates a thinned silicon media sled to increase the frequency response of the system. The suspended micro-mechanical media sled moves in x-y (±50 μm) using electrostatic actuation. The system design specification requires actuation of an 8x8 mm ma...

Media has become dominant in all aspects of human lives, from critical applications such as medical, military, and security (e.g. surveillance cameras) to entertainment applications such as social media and media sharing websites. Billions of massive media objects (e.g., videos, photos, documents, etc.) are generated every second with high diversity among them (in terms of sizes and formats). T...

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purpose: optisol-gs is still the most popular cold storage medium used in the united states for short term preservation of donated corneas. cebi medium is a new cold storage medium made by the central eye bank of iran for donor cornea storage. this study was conducted to compare the quantitative and qualitative indices of the donated corneas maintained in optisol-gs versus in the cebi medium. m...

Data storage systems are being called on to manage continuous media data types, such as digital audio and video. There is a demand by applications for \constrained-latency storage access" (CLSA) to such data: precisely scheduled delivery of data streams. We believe that anticipated quantitative improvements in processor and storage-device performance will not be su cient for current data manage...

We propose a tamper-evident storage system based on probe storage with a patterned magnetic medium. This medium supports normal read/write operations by outof-plane magnetisation of individual magnetic dots. We report on measurements showing that in principle the medium also supports a separate class of write-once operation that destroys the out-of-plane magnetisation property of the dots irrev...