Nano DVDs to be the future with 400GB storage and up?

Posted on Wednesday, May 25 2005 @ 0:16 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Iomega filed a patent regarding nano-techlogy based subwavelength optical data storage. The patents is about a technique to encode data on the surface of a DVD by using reflective nano-structures to encode data in a highly multi-level format.

AO-DVD (Articulated Optical Digital Versatile Disc) allows 40 to 100 times more storage capacity than current DVDs and allows 5 to 30 times faster data rates, at similar low costs.

Iomega is working to investigate the commercial feasibility of this format and other nano-structural data encoding formats. One possibility being investigated, termed NG-DVD (Nano-Grating - DVD), uses nano-gratings to encode multi-level information via reflectivity, polarization, phase, and reflective orientation multiplexing. Iomega is concurrently evaluating and developing appropriate partners to leverage this intellectual property for producing commercial data storage devices.

More details at Physorg

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