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The ultra long life nanoform

A SOLUTION FOR LONG TERM SECURE PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL DATA

For any human organization (companies, institutions) the preservation of information or strategical documents due to their economic, juridical or patrimonial value is a major issue. Risks of loss of this information are increasing on very long-term.

In order to answer to this issue of conservation of digital information with high safety level, ARNANO developed a technology allowing « to reproduce » at a microscopic scale the documents on an extremely stable sapphire wafer. So it guaranties a very long life to the informations. The NANOFORM, sapphire wafer that can contain up to 10 000 A4 pages, is:

• Extremely resistant, it can be stocked in surrounding air during several hundred of years and manipulated without extreme caution or maintenance.
• Forgery proof,
• Readable through the wafer by transparency manually or automatically
• Independent of technological evolutions because documents are not encoded.
• A “document” with probative value

*NANOFORM is made up of a sapphire wafer in the middle of which information is engraved at a microscopic scale and revealed by a titanium nitride coating. These very high performance materials allow the NANOFORM to resist to the most severe attacks:

• Scratches and abrasion (Hardness of 9 on a scale of 10 (diamond))
• Water, saltwater, salt atmosphere, solvent and acid resistant
• UV and electromagnetic radiation resistant
• Thermal resistant (up to 950°C)

Reading of the nanoform

READING OF THE NANOFORM ON THE NANOVIEWER SCANNER

Examples

EXAMPLES OF « NANOFORM » ACHIEVEMENT

We have already carried out several products for unique applications

Manufacturing process

Arnano conserve les archives sur saphir pour 2000 ans voire plus…