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The third plasmonic revolution

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Combining nanostructured magnetic media with nanoplasmonic antennas has propelled commercially viable data-storage densities beyond one terabit per square inch.

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Figure 1: Areal density (on a log scale) versus year for different forms of magnetic HDD technology.

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  1. Daniel O'Connor and Anatoly V. Zayats are in the Centre for Nanostructured Media, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK. a.zayats@qub.ac.uk,

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