Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

Optical data storage is the use of light to write and read information to and from a memory device. Storage can be achieved by using lasers to pattern a surface, such as on a compact disc, or altering ...

For over 20 years I have been involved in activities that create industry consortium roadmaps for digital storage technologies. Technology roadmap activities such as these were put on by various ...

A German-Japanese research team involving the University of Augsburg has made a significant breakthrough in the use of antiferromagnets. For the first time, the team has succeeded in writing magnetic ...

A new approach that uses light to switch the magnetic states of a material could lead to faster, smaller and more ...

Shrinking and shaping laser beams changed how magnetic domains flipped, opening another route toward faster, denser data ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

An optical disk is an electronic data storage medium that can be written to and read from using a low-powered laser beam. Most of today's optical disks are available in three formats: compact disks ...

Optical storage is any storage type in which data is written and read with a laser. Typically, data is written to optical media such as compact discs (CDs) and digital versatile discs (DVDs). At one ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...