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Condensed Matter Apr 11, 2024

Efficiency boost: Dual light pulses minimize energy for phase transitions

Researchers have explained the mechanisms behind a counterintuitive phenomenon: Making a phase transition effective requires less energy if it is initiated by two pulses of light instead of just one. The energy needed to ...

Condensed Matter Apr 4, 2024

Team presents new path to long-term data storage based on atomic-scale defects

With the development of the internet, social media and cloud computing, the amount of data created worldwide on a daily basis is sky-rocketing. This calls for new technologies that could provide higher storage densities combined ...

Nanophysics Mar 2, 2024

Researchers demonstrate 3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity

The most popular words of 2023 were recently released, with AI Large Language Model (LLM) unquestionably topping the list. As a front-runner, ChatGPT also emerged as one of the international buzzwords of the year. These disruptive ...

Soft Matter Dec 11, 2023

A mechanism of pressure-induced glass phase transition leading to advanced phase-change memories

When temperature or pressure is applied to a material, its state changes from liquid to solid or remains solid but exhibits structural changes. This change is called a phase transition or change.

Nanophysics Dec 4, 2023

Optical data storage breakthrough increases capacity of diamonds by circumventing the diffraction limit

Physicists at The City College of New York have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. The research ...

Nanomaterials Jul 25, 2023

A nano switchable polar column system that allows high-density data storage

In today's world of digital information, an enormous amount of data is exchanged and stored on a daily basis.

Optics & Photonics Nov 24, 2022

Scientists demonstrate world's first continuous-wave lasing of deep-ultraviolet laser diode at room temperature

A research group led by 2014 Nobel laureate Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University's Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS) in central Japan, in collaboration with Asahi Kasei Corporation, has successfully ...

Social Sciences Mar 24, 2022

People of color helped keep movie business afloat during pandemic

A large percentage of the movie business's box office revenue and home viewership was driven by consumers of color in 2021, according to UCLA's latest Hollywood Diversity Report. The report examines the 252 top-performing ...

Nanophysics Feb 26, 2021

Sub-diffraction optical writing enables data storage at the nanoscale

The total amount of data generated worldwide is expected to reach 175 zettabytes (1 ZB equals 1 billion terabytes) by 2025. If 175 ZB were stored on Blu-ray disks, the stack would be 23 times the distance to the moon. There ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 2, 2021

Say goodbye to the dots and dashes to enhance optical storage media

Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored "digital characters" to modernize optical storage. They are confident the advancement will help with the explosion of remote ...

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