Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...