Wide-bandgap materials with a high Young’s modulus offer great potential for ODS media due to their exceptional robustness and transparency. One approach has focused on exploiting the charge states of ...

Phase-change materials and hydrogels, which are emerging as versatile, low-cost, high-speed materials with large-area processing capabilities, are key building blocks for next-generation optical ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

Halide perovskite materials exhibit broad application potential in fields such as information storage, lasers, anti-counterfeiting, and planar lenses due to their unique optoelectronic properties. The ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The relentless growth of digital data, fueled by the rapid expansion of the internet, social media, and cloud technologies, has created an urgent need for innovative data storage ...