{"id":217,"date":"2010-05-26T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-08-25T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:00:18","slug":"new-crystal-tech-promise-more-optical-disc-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/new-crystal-tech-promise-more-optical-disc-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"New Crystal Promise More Optical Disc Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/blackcrystal2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-219\" title=\"blackcrystal2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/blackcrystal2-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/blackcrystal2-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/blackcrystal2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>A team of scientists working in Japan have discovered a new crystal structure that could pave the way for optical discs with 1000 times more storage than current BluRay Discs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The material, a new crystal form of titanium oxide, can switch back and forth between the metal and semiconductor states at room temperature when exposed to light, creating an effective on-off function for data storage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is &#8220;promising as a material for a next-generation optical storage device,&#8221; Ohkoshi told AFP by telephone.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news193896595.html\">-via <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting to see lots of activity on a fairly old technology (optical discs) it just goes to show that the utilization of physical media as an archive medium is alive and kicking.]<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:Flickr user\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/30486689@N08\/\">SDCDeaCerte<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists working in Japan have discovered a new crystal structure that could pave the way for optical discs with 1000 times more storage than current BluRay Discs. The material, a new crystal form of titanium oxide, can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/new-crystal-tech-promise-more-optical-disc-storage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}