We are entering an age of data explosion. The volume of digital information generated from the internet and from portable and high-definition video devices has doubled every two years since 2000 and ...

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 ...

Scientists claim to have revealed a pathway to a new kind of “efficient, ultra-high-density optical memory storage.” A recently published paper, penned by researchers from the U.S. Department of ...

As Sony quits the optical storage device market, and cloud storage costs become ever lower, how long will it be before we struggle to find devices to access those DVD archives or Blu-ray backup discs?

Storage in electronic devices has changed a lot over the decades, with CDs, DVDs, and now hard drivers being phased out by ...

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, ...

Taiwan’s opto-electronics industry produced NT$155.65 billion worth of goods in the first quarter of 2002 on the back of brisk demand for flat display panels and optical storage devices, according to ...

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 ...