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Physicist Pushes Multilayer CDs

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A Russian-born physicist, who emigrated from the Soviet Union more than two decades ago, has persuaded the Russian parliament to invest in a company that would manufacture multilayer fluorescent discs. Eugene Levich heads two firms that have shares in that company, 3-DOM of Orel, Russia. The design of the discs is based on what researchers call "stable photochrome," a transparent organic substance whose fluorescence can be triggered by a laser beam so that it can be detected by a standard photoreceiver. It is possible to build up to 50 transparent layers, each with encoded information that...Read full article

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