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Nanotechnology helps increase DVD storage capacity
Date: 25-May-09
Author: Swinburne University of Technology
Futuristic discs with a storage capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs could be just around the corner, thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.
For the first time researchers from the university's Centre for Micro-Photonics have demonstrated how nanotechnology can enable the creation of 'five dimensional' discs with huge storage capacities. The researchers were able to use nanoscopic particles to exponentially increase the amount of information contained on a single disc.
 Courtesy: Andrew Yee
Discs currently have three spatial dimensions, but using nanoparticles the Swinburne researchers were able to introduce a spectral -- or colour -- dimension as well as a polarisation dimension.
The research was published in the scientific journal Nature.
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