{"id":8548,"date":"2009-05-21T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T05:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2009-05-21T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T05:51:00","slug":"news-from-the-right-side-of-the-number-line-graphene-a-possible-replacement-for-silicon-in-computer-chips-and-a-dvd-sized-storage-device-that-can-hold-more-than-a-thousand-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8548\/news-from-the-right-side-of-the-number-line-graphene-a-possible-replacement-for-silicon-in-computer-chips-and-a-dvd-sized-storage-device-that-can-hold-more-than-a-thousand-dvds\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the right side of the number line: Graphene, a possible replacement for silicon in computer chips, and a DVD-sized storage device that can hold more than a thousand DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the paths to the singularity, and the one that is mostly readily plausible given the current state of physics, is nanotechnology. Here are two new nano-entities ready to break out of the laboratory.<\/p>\n

First, how would you like to store your entire movie collection on one DVD-sized disc?<\/a><\/p>\n

A DVD that can store up to 2,000 films could usher in an age of three-dimensional TV and ultra-high definition viewing, scientists say. <\/p>\n

The ultra-DVD is the same size and thickness as a conventional disc, but uses nano-technology to store vast amounts of information. <\/p>\n

Scientists believe it could be on sale in five years and say it will revolutionise the way we store films, music and data. <\/p>\n

One disc could back up the memory of a computer or record thousands of hours of film. <\/p>\n

The breakthrough comes from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, where scientists created a prototype using ‘nano rods’ – tiny particles of gold too small to see – and polarised light, in which the light waves only flow in one direction. <\/p>\n

Professor Min Gu, whose findings appear in the journal Nature, said: ‘We were able to show how nano-structured material can be incorporated on to a disc to increase data capacity without increasing the size of the disc.’ <\/p>\n

A DVD can hold up to 8.5 gigabytes of information, enough for a movie, several special features and an alternative soundtrack. <\/p>\n

Blu-ray discs, which were designed to replace them, can store 50GB, enough for a film and extra features in high definition. <\/p>\n

But ultra-DVDs will be able to store ten terabytes – or 10,000GB.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of much greater moment, consider Graphene, a perfect carbon structure one atom thick.<\/a><\/p>\n

Eight MIT researchers, along with colleagues at Harvard and Boston University, have just received a major U.S. Department of Defense grant for graphene research. With this five-year grant, Palacios says, MIT and its collaborators “would become one of the strongest multidisciplinary teams working on graphene in the world.”<\/p>\n

Its unique electrical characteristics could make graphene the successor to silicon in a whole new generation of microchips, surmounting basic physical constraints limiting the further development of ever-smaller, ever-faster silicon Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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