vIndianz.com (10 Mar, 2010) — Chennai: Chennai-based nanotechnology research scholar R. Shivaraman is on cloud nine. He has been hired by hardware manufacturer Seagate Technology at an annual pay packet of a whopping Rs 1.4 crore!
Though the patent under the US law is still being awaited for his innovative ‘polymer templated lithography process which allows fabrication of patterned magnetic media with density of around 30 TB’, the offer from Seagate promises to take him places.
The new technology for ultra-high data storage is already available. His innovation scores over others in the time taken to fabricate the hard drives. Shivaraman holds an Indian patent jointly with C. Gopalakrishnan, who like him is also with the Nanotechnology Research Centre at the SRM University, for an innovation that enables a hard drive to hold a large amount of data of up to 30 terabyte (TB) as against the current storage capacity of 500 gigabyte. Shivaraman plans to join Seagate in December by which time he will get his doctorate in nanotechnology.
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