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jcunha

'Superman memory crystal' that could store 360TB of data forever | ExtremeTech - 0 views

www.extremetech.com/...that-could-store-360tb-of-data

technology 5D PHY memory TB

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  • jcunha on 22 Feb 16
     
    A new so called 5D data storage that could potentially survive for billions of years. The research consists of nanostructured glass that can record digital data in five dimensions using femtosecond laser writing.
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  • jcunha on 22 Feb 16
     
    Very scarce scientific info available.. I'm very curious to see a bit more in future. From https://spie.org/PWL/conferencedetails/laser-micro-nanoprocessing I made a back of envelop calc: for 20 nm spaced, each laser spot in 5D encryption encodes 3 bits (it seemed to me) written in 3 planes, to obtain the claimed 360TB disk one needs very roughly 6000mm2, which does not complain with the dimensions shown in video. Only with larger number of planes (order of magnitude higher) it could be.. Also, at current commercial trends NAND Flash and HDD allow for 1000 Gb/in2. This means a 360 TB could hypothetically fit in 1800mm2.
  • Alexander Wittig on 22 Feb 16
     
    I had the same issue with the numbers when I saw the announcement a few days back (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page). It doesn't seem to add up. Plus, the examples they show are super low amounts of data (the bible probably fits on a few 1.44 MB floppy disk). As for the comparison with NAND and HDD, I think the main argument for their crystal is that it is supposedly more durable. HDDs are chronically bad at long term storage, and also NAND as far as I know needs to be refreshed frequently.
  • jcunha on 23 Feb 16
     
    Yes Alex, indeed, the durability is the point I think they highlight and focus on (besides the fact the abstract says something as the extrapolated decay time being comparable to the age of the Universe..). Indeed memories face problems with retention time. Most of the disks retain the information up to 10 years. When enterprises want to store data for longer times than this they use... yeah, magnetic tapes :-). Check a interesting article about magnetic tape market revival here http://www.information-age.com/technology/data-centre-and-it-infrastructure/123458854/rise-fall-and-re-rise-magnetic-tape I compared for fun, to have one idea of what we were talking about. I am also very curious so see the writing and reading times in this new memory :)
  • joergmueller on 23 Feb 16
     
    But how can glass store the information so long? Glass is not even solid?!
jaihobah

Luminescent detector for free-space optical communication - 0 views

www.osapublishing.org/...abstract.cfm

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  • jaihobah on 28 Jul 16
     
    Here, we show that fluorescent materials can be used to increase the active area of a photodiode by orders of magnitude while maintaining its short response time and increasing its field of view
duncan barker

Zero Gravity water sphere experiment Video - 0 views

www.pakistan.tv/periment-%5BT4JrhW2aO6I%5D.cfm

shared by duncan barker on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • duncan barker on 28 Oct 10
     
    ssssoooooooooo  coooooooooool
Francesco Biscani

Gigapixel-Dresden.de - Large Size Panoramas - 4 views

www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP

fun

shared by Francesco Biscani on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes.
  • Ma Ru on 18 Feb 10
     
    "With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)" Daring statement... I'm not quite sure, but I'd quess microscopic images used in medicine can easily reach terapixels... What a waste of pixels anyway... they weren't able to find a bit more interesing city?
  • pacome delva on 23 Feb 10
     
    yeah... like Leiden !
jcunha

A practical polariton laser - Nature Photonics - 2 views

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PHY photonics light-matter coupling polariton

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  • jcunha on 03 Nov 14
     
    One overview about a recent publication (10/06/2014 http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.236802) showing room temperature operation of a new type of laser 'discovered' in 2013, the polariton laser. This new type of laser shows extremely low threshold current density - 2 orders of magnitude below Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) - and it is believed to become one important component of nanophotonic integrated components.
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