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Tsai and his colleagues from National Taiwan University, National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan, and the Research Center for Applied Sciences in Taiwan used the large surface area of optical disks as a platform to grow tiny, upright zinc oxide nanorods about a thousandth the width of a human hair.
Spinning CDs to clean sewage water
Variable label sizes: Soft4Boost Disc Cover Studio will create labels for different sized optical disks including CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, VCD and optical storage disks;
Soft4Boost Releases "Design Your Own" Disc Label Software
Toshiba Corp has also revealed recently that it intends to introduce notebook computers in May able to handle HD DVD disks, which compete with Blu-ray disks in the high-definition optical disk market.
Fujitsu to introduce desktop PCs with Blu-ray disk drives
The upshot of all of this was that UBS Warburg was required to produce at its own cost all responsive e-mail on the active systems and optical disks because they required no restoration; and it was required to restore five sample tapes at its own expense.
Zubulake: The real issues
The only difference may be in the amount of time it takes to retrieve the file, since many secondary storage resources, such as tape and optical disk libraries, rely on robotics to move a cartridge from a shelf in the library and load it into a drive to read and write data.
ILM: the promises and the problems
In addition, little birefringence and better flatness of substrates should also be achieved as required by specification for the next generation of optical disks. Furthermore, in the case of the axial asymmetry structure of the disk (2), little water absorption, which is preferable for preventing warpage due to uneven water swell from each surface, is necessary for a polymer to form a suitable substrate.
A study on the characteristics of antiplasticized polycarbonates and their optical disk substrates
said Thursday they have developed an optical disk made primarily from paper and capable of storing large volumes of high-definition images.
Sony, Toppan Printing develop paper optical disk
MCS will manufacture prerecorded optical disks for a range of uses, including CD-Roms, DVD, video, CDs and audio CDs for leading record companies, internet service providers, magazine publishers, and games publishers.
MCS venture creates jobs; MULTIMEDIA: pounds 7.4m joint investment will assist deprived area
The converted image then is stored on optical disks.
In pursuit of the paperless office
Optical disks store the most data: A 5.25-inch optical disk can hold up to 650 megabytes (Mb)--the equivalent of over 13,000 pages.
The paperless office
There has been no litigation specifically addressing the use of optical disks for document storage.
Legal status of imaging systems and optical storage of records
By drawing upon advances in magnetic storage in consumer audio and video technologies, optical disks have emerged with revolutionary storage densities that are up to 20 times higher than magnetic media.
Optical disk archiving: the coming revolution in data management

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