Pioneer has developed an optical disc that can hold up to 400GB of data, easily surpassing previously announced prototypes (see “A battle brews between blue-laser optical disk and tape”). The new disc ...

Industry standardization is a fickle mistress. Just ask the manufacturers of optical drives, their building blocks, and media. On the one hand, a unified technological approach to addressing a market ...

The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a fast and energy-efficient laser-writing method for producing high-density nanostructures in silica glass. These tiny structures can be used for long-term five ...