The new study models how light spreads at the nanometer scale to understand how energy moves between rare earth emitters and ...

The 1990s saw a revolution occur, launched by the CD burner ... and explore the near future for writable optical discs. These will soon be a rarity. Sony’s plant in Tagaze, Japan was the ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

CDs and DVDs have become relics, replaced by the popularity of streaming and cloud storage. However, scientists think they may have found a way to bring optical disc storage roaring back – with ...

the user can write data to the CD once or fill it over time using multi-session (writing to the same disc on separate occasions). CD-RW - meaning CD-ReWritable, the CD can be written and re ...

An optical storage technology that uses multiple recording platters for higher capacity. Typically, DVDs and Blu-ray discs are available in two or more layers. In 1994, at its Almaden Research ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists have proposed ... which become excited by light absorption. Current optical memory storage methods such as CDs and DVDs are constrained by the diffraction limit ...

Current optical memory storage methods such as CDs and DVDs are constrained by the ... However, scientists hypothesized that optical disks could hold more data within the same area by using ...