Magical objects turned out to inspire a number of researchers at Southampton University to develop a hard drive that is made of glass.
They use lasers to rearrange the atoms in a piece of glass and shaping it into a new type of computer memory. Memory storage device made of glass is claimed to be able to withstand temperatures up to 982 degrees Celsius and water resistant so it can survive thousands of years without losing data.
Information''can be written, erased and rewritten into the molecular structure of glass using a laser,''said Chief Researcher Martynas Beresna quoted telegraph.co.uk.
The process of conversion of light traveling through the glass also creates a polarized light swirl, and can be read in many ways as data in an optical fiber.
According Beresna, crystal shape memory no larger than a mobile screen capable of accommodating the data equivalent of blu-ray disc capacity of 50GB.
Optoelectronics research project at Southampton University was published in the scientific journal Applied Physics Letters.
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