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Laurel M. Sheppard

With today's technology, compact discs hold about 1 bit of information per square micron. Associate professor of physics Zameer Hasan and colleagues at Temple University have devised a way to increase this storage capacity by three orders of magnitude. The researchers believe that, in principle, 1 million bits of information per square micron eventually will be feasible, which would make it possible to fit the entire contents of the Library of Congress on just a few discs. At Temple University, (from left) physicist Zameer Hasan and postdoctoral research fellows Levent Biyikli and...Read full article

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