Our Technologies

Nanofiche™

Nanofiche is a breakthrough new analog archival preservation technology, designed to replace film-based microfiche. Nanofiche stores orders of magnitude more content in the same space as microfiche, is impervious to temperature and humidity, and never decays or has to be replaced. Each letter is the size of a bacillus bacterium, and can be read with a 1000X optical microscope. At 600 dpi, 150,000 photos or pages of text can fit on a single 8.5”x11” sheet of Nanofiche, making it by far, the highest density analog storage media in the world today.

5D OPTICAL MEMORY

Sometimes referred to as “Superman memory,” 5D optical memory is an experimental new digital archival medium in which data is encoded at nanoscale as layers inside quartz silica glass, using a femtosecond laser. 5D memory has a theoretical capacity of hundreds of Terabytes per disc and is durable for up to 14 billion years. Today this technology is still in early R&D, but may displace all forms of digital optical storage within 20 years.

Molecular storage in synthetic dna

Molecular storage in synthetic DNA molecules is an experimental direction for the storage and replication of extremely large datasets. Petabytes of data can potentially be stored in small volumes of DNA and inexpensively replicated. The Arch Mission Foundation is partnered with universities, major corporations, and startups that are working on different approaches to storing data in DNA.

Artificial Amber

Nature has used amber formed from tree resins to preserve biological samples for hundreds of millions of years on Earth. Various forms of synthetic resin are used by entomologists and botanists to preserve biological samples today. The Arch Mission Foundation is researching the use of synthetic resins as artificial amber for the long-term preservation and recovery of DNA, cells and organisms.