10TB DVD's

Some whiz-kid blokes from Swinburne University in Australia have developed "Five-Dimensional" DVDs with a storage potential 2,000 greater than current disks. Nanopaticles and "polarization" method allow for massive increases in storage potential, while still maintaining the standard disk size. Teaming up with Samsung, researchers have already used this technique to create a 1.6 TB DVD, with future disks holding 10 terabytes. Our current crop of DVDs operate in three dimensions, the two extra dimensions of a five dimensional DVD are created by adding a color dimension, and a polarization dimension. Gold nanoparticles are used to create the color dimension. Since the size of the particles dictate how they react to light, researchers use this record data at different color wavelengths in the same place on a disk. Disk polarization can be adjusted 360 degrees. Data can be recorded at Zero degrees, with the ability to record more data at 90 degrees of polarization with no interference.