Self-assembled structures offer a unique design concept for optical data storage devices. The storage of digital information using light is a key technology for producing long-term archives of large ...

An optic fiber sensing system developed by researchers in China and Canada can peer inside supercapacitors and batteries to observe their state of charge. Renewable energy sources are naturally ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In a world driven by data, the relentless growth of digital information is pushing existing storage technologies to their limits. Every day, vast amounts of data are generated, ...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Royal Philips Electronics NV will team up with Benq Corp. to establish an optical storage devices company that aims to grab 15% share of the worldwide market. Philips and Benq will ...

The following article on the legality of optical storage was written by and is reprinted with permission of Robert F. Williams, president, Cohasset Associates, Inc., a records management consulting ...

Santa Clara, CA — National Semiconductor launches its newest laser diode driver (LDD) for use in optical pickup units (OPUs). The LMH6533 has extremely fast switching rates and very low output current ...

Nor will the accounts department be happy if the cost of buying storage doubles every year. Consequently, vendors of disk, tape, and optical storage devices have roughly kept pace with the growth of ...

The short-term solution to increasing storage capacity is to add more storage boxes. However, with storage volumes doubling every year or two, this solution is hardly going to be popular in ...