Permanent Data Storage with Light (IMAGE)

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Permanent Data Storage with Light

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All-optical data memory: ultra-short light pulses make the GST material change from crystalline to amorphous and back. Weak light pulses read out the data.

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Photo: C. Rios/Oxford University

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