[ShadowAce]

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Peta is a thousand trillion? Washington Democrats thank you! They were worried that they’d be stuck at just hundreds of trillions of dollars.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

How does lithography impact storage,...I maybe am missing simethib here.

[ClearCase_guy]

Overcoming a fundamental law of physics

Sweet!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I remember when the CD ROM was the Holy Grail of optical storage.

[cuban leaf]

the development with CSIRO of a unique two-photon absorption resin.

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I wondered if the article would get to that. It’s the same principle used by the device that was used to transport me to this assignment from my home world. The return trip is slower - at least the part to the transmitter on the dark side of the moon.

[ClearCase_guy]

But why bother?

'640K of memory should be enough for anybody.'

NOTE: although often attributed to Bill Gates, apparently he never actually said this.

[Springfield Reformer]

So, OK, when do those 4T drives at Best Buy start coming down in price? And when can I get my entire personal collection of digital stuff on a single disk, which I can then lose in my couch or otherwise misplace?

Or better yet, when will MS come out with its first multi-Terabyte OS, based on the principle that all available storage space, no matter how large, are belong to them?

[Gay State Conservative]

Just think of all the data some $100K/yr floor sweeper at IRS Headquarters could carry around in his pocket...ready to sell to the highest bidder.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Wonderful - except it will still take three weeks to write 1,000 TB to the disk. :)

[erod]

If this happened I could start ripping blu rays!!!! :D

[Moonman62]

The downside is the disc is 10 miles wide.

[Brett66]

The new technique produces a focal spot that is 1 ten thousandth of a human hair

Think of the hair you could store with that!

[arthurus]

An optical disc from the Animal Rights terrorists?

[EternalVigilance]

Professor Gu said by using a second donut-shaped beam to inhibit the photopolymerisation triggered by the writing beam in the donut ring, two-beam optical beam lithography can break the limit defined by the diffraction spot size of the two focused beams. He said the key to 3D deep sub-diffraction optical beam lithography was the development with CSIRO of a unique two-photon absorption resin. “This enabled a two-channel chemical reaction associated with the polymerisation and its counterpart of inhibited polymerisation, respectively, which eventually attributed to build mechanically robust nanostructures.

Of course! Why didn't I think of that ...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Fred could you run over to this university and check out what the guys are talking about.

And if they are gonna form a company backed up with patents ,...I want to invest .....need a stock symbol.