Atomic Holographic Nanotechnology will Set the Pace for the Future
Atomic Holographic Nanotechnology will Set the Pace for the Future
Colossal Storage Corporation feels rewritable 2D Area MO storage technology is on it's way out do to 2D Area Blu-Ray Violet Laser DVD technology coming online and feels WORM Phase Change Blu-Ray has 5 years before it is on its way out because of 3D Volume Holographic Optical Nanotechnology storage coming online.
Most all Phase Change media uses ferroelectric Ge2Sb2Te5 material. The DVD/CD/MO/Blu-Ray Phase Change companies didn't know the media they were using was ferroelectric but only knew if they heated it up and cooled it down something happened to the surface of the material.
Colossal Storage will be the only drive in the world that will be able to read any phase change disk with the capability of overwriting or infinitely rewriting data to any phase change disk by changing the internal molecular structure of the polarized atom dipole geometry without heat and cooling. 1 Colossal Storage 10 Terabyte Rewritable FeDisk will equal 100 - 100 Gigabyte hard drives, 20,000 DVD's WORMS , 4,000 Blu-Ray or China's 405-408 nm Violet Laser EVD WORM Disk's . Colossal's Atomic Holographic Storage Drive will be able to Download 6,840 raw uncompressed TV Hours. WORM means the data information must be professionally written at the factory in most cases with ONE write allowed to the disk in the field. WORM disks can be read many thousands of times with a shelf life of about 5 years. Worm doesnt make it a hard disk drive replacement technology or The Holy Grail of data storage technology like Colossal Storage Rewritable atomic holographic nanotechnology. An enhanced version of the 2D Area MO Drive would be Opticom ASA / Intel which uses Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) organic protein molecules that have dipole states that change under photon stimulation creating a 2D area mosaic of colors. Bacteriorhodopsin has a maximum data retention storage life of 10 years. Florida International University / Seagate have joined the BR market with their near-field contact recording (5 nm recording height). Colossal Storage feels this technology will be fragile and susceptible to head crashing, very short unstable shelf life, and read/write reliability problems. Extreme care must be taken in the storage and operation similar to undeveloped photographic film. Photoreceptor Proteins Prof. Dr. Klaas J. Hellingwerf, University of Amsterdam , Molecular Memory Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine University of London . WORM holographics , Congratulations After 20 years and over $ 200 Million Dollars The World's First Prototype !!! Lucent's InPhase Inc. , In-Phase, Imation, Hitachi-Maxell , The World's 2nd Holographic Drive Polaroid's Aprilis , IBM Inc. , Holoplex Inc., Optilink, Polight Technologies , Matteris , and others plan on developing temperature sensitive complex polymer chain plastics based WORM media with the HOPES of solving REWRITABILITY CONCEPTS SOMETIME in the FUTURE . All holographic storage technology except Colossal Storage Corp. use a spacial light modulator (SLM) made from ferroelectric lithium niobate which writes one complete page of data at a time. Colossal feels all other holographic storage companies with there excessive investment and length of development time to a manufacturable drive have hurt the holographic storage markets reputation for a real product. When you need to change ONE BIT USING SLM it is necessary to almost rewrite the ENTIRE DISK ! Since ALL other holographic storage technology use a spatial light modulator (SLM) which writes one complete page of data at a time. The data must loaded serially to the SLM and is destructively written so any mistakes on the serial loaded SLM means increased wasted write data time. This method is great for WORM data storage but when BIT FOR BIT Erase / Write / and Read of random data to a disk is needed in real time day to day applications the SLM concept will NOT be able to function. Colossal Storages method for writing is like having billions of vertical spatial light modulated pages in one rewritable ferroelectric track, each track having billions of SLM's. Imagine having billions of SLM on the disk where the data is written / read in bit / byte / word accurately every time at atomic light speeds. WORM , The big nine DVD manufacturers are expanding their storage technology into a future new 2D AREA BLU-Ray 405-408 nm violet laser Phase Change chalcogenide DVD with densities and data transfer rates that wont even reach Colossal's starting point for bit densities or bandwidth transfer potential. WORM , Blu-Ray Group member Pioneer is looking to break out of the pack using a substrate made of carbon covered with a light-sensitive silver. But more research is needed before the technology can be incorporated into a product. The drive works by
data holes in the silver where the UV penetrates the silver striking the carbon surface. Pioneer will find the silver has long term data storage reliability problems when its used with UV Photons. No INFINITE REWRITABLE POSSIBILITY with this technology. WORM ,Toshiba and NEC have teamed together to get their concept of a 2D Blu-Ray 408 nm violet DVD on the market. WORM , Toshiba patent 6,577,591. After many years of being the only technology in the field of Reading and Writing to an Optical Storage Media using Non-Contact UV/Blue Photon Induced Electric Field Poling Technique. Toshiba's patent 6,577,591 Validates by trying to copy the nanotechnology pioneered by Michael E. Thomas. The improper Toshiba technique has very poor reliability issues as it uses polymers and UV photons together for writing and reading. Toshiba will find that polycarbonates, propylenes, and other polymers have long term out gassing and crosslinking problems when UV photons interacts with them over a short period of time. WORM , Sony announced May 15, 2003 an infra red dual wavelength laser integrated head for CD's. WORM , It will be interesting to see if the future brings Japan's NHK STRL to develop an integrated semiconductor read / write head that uses ultraviolet leds, electric fields (voltage or electro static field) and ferroelectric media violating Colossal Storage Corporation Patents. WORM , Hitachi-Maxcell have pinned their hopes on electrochromic materials that will use a tricky CONTACT ball bearing voltage controlled layer/surface optical focusing system to read/write 1 layer/surface at a time, very slow. This type of CONTACT optical data storage material is slow to color change, no shelf life numbers for media are available. WORM , Japan's Optware and Fuji 2D AREA Phase Change near field recording with their green/blue read reflected 2D polarized photons of low data bit densities and slow READ data transfer rates is so complex they can only build optics for 3 drives a week in China. The thermal expansion of Optware's phase change near field plastic polymer recording layer and the servo track aluminum coated plastic substrate will offer many opportunities for track seek Read/Write Errors. Optware is trying to get the system to be the world's standard by their effort at ECMA. They still need to convince ANSI and ISO to be a world standard. They have no solution and will never be able to attain Infinite Rewritability for their concept without licensing Colossal Storage patents. WORM , TDK, Calimetrics, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. and Shinano Kenshi Co. started work on a Multi-Level Phase Change Drive in 2000 saying they would have a completed drive product to Market in ONE YEAR ( 3 years late and nothing heard ! ). Their Multi-Level Read/Write Recording High-Speed/High-Capacity Storage Solutions Built On Familiar, Inexpensive CD-R/RW Platform. Colossal feels their concept will NEVER work as the multi-level phase change encryption electronics design concept is prone to complex uncorrectable errors . HOLOGRAPHIC WORM POLIGHT OUT OF BUSINESS, Green/Red Laser Holonide Holographic disk proposed is from Polight Technologies and Cambridge University uses a ferroelectric spatial light modulator for rewritable data storage and retrieval by melting and resolidifying chalcogenide glass media. The alignment of sensitive lenses and mirrors throughout will allow the STM/AFM cantilever system to convert green photons to mechanical energy and then to serial electrical impulse read data. There are reports of technology failure. WORM , Optware, Aprilis, Stanford University, Siros Technology have been trying for 10 years to develop a Rewritable 3D storage near field recording concept using Poloroid CROP Photopolymer (epoxy-modified silicones, basically the same formula for floppy diskettes with magnetic oxides left out) named " Aprilis HMD120 " holographic media which is useful for WORM holographic storage. Photopolymers are light and heat sensitive having out gassing problems during curing and must be stored with extreme care. Repeated disk media exposure over Time to Light causes CROP photopolymer increased modulation and reliability problems reading stored data. CROP polymers must be read at 500 nm which is well above the 1 nm to ~ 400 nm range of UV used by Colossal. CROPS photopolymer like all plastic based polymers have cross linking problems when exposed to UV and basically self destruct. Data lifetime is expected to be good but no lifetime numbers have been defined. WORM , The general Holographic Storage Consortium approach uses the concepts established many years ago about Optical data storage, Physics World July 2000 will provide 100 gigabits per 5.25-inch disk and will transfer data at rates above 750 megabits per second. The HSC devices also use much longer wavelength red and green laser diodes to write and read. WORM , Although we're unlikely to see such devices until 2010, the consortium, which includes Matsushita, Ricoh, Pioneer, Mitsubishi, and three universities, is plunging $25 million into an R&D project which will start in Spring of 2003 for a future 3D Holographic Drive. WORM , The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA present a great theoretical working concept for ferroelectric holographic storage, it is impractical to manufacture as is Oak Ridge National Laboratory / DOE and Martin Marietta Energy Systems 14 inch Worm Drive. The Blu-ray WORM Disc format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers, with more than 170 member companies from all over the world. The Board of Directors currently consists of:
Apple Computer, Inc. Colossal Storage feels that Blu-Ray will have a short period of success as did the 8mm tape cartridge, Sony's Beta Max, Seagates's MO, and the Pet Rock. The BDA, magnetic hard drive, and DVD companies have been trying to block Colossal Storage Nanostorage for many years but the Vision and product potential will come thru just as Jack Northrop's 20 year struggle for the Flying Wing. Now the most advanced stealth fighters and and bombers in the world.
Great technology cannot be suppressed for very long NO matter how strong the current BDA membership, magnetic hard drive associates, and DVD industry collusion or illegal subversive packs preventing its market introduction. This Website is constantly being updated with the latest research, press, and breakthrus in Ferroelectrics and other Future Storage Technologies. Colossal Storage (web start date Sept 1, 1999)is always looking to promote its technology as well as others, please email any links for us to evaluate. If applicable, other new and evolving technologies will be listed under our Other Technologies Development Section. FeDrive and FeHead are the trade names for the integrated semiconductor ferroelectric device concepts of Colossal Storage, Pocomoke City, Md. This home page contains, lots of useful information such as theoretical ideas, application data, future concepts , and future marketing data and other technologies under development. [ CAUTION - General ] Although the information at this web site (hereinafter called "Information") is provided in good faith and believed to be correct, Colossal Storage and its affiliates referred to at this web site (hereinafter called "Affiliates") make no representations or warranties as to its completeness, accuracy, or timeliness. This web site and Information are provided to you on an "as is" basis with out any warranty of any kind, and the use of them is at your own risk. The Information is protected by copyright under the laws of The United States of America and other foreign countries. You may not sell, modify, reproduce, display, distribute, or otherwise use the Information in any way for any public or commercial purpose. Neither license nor immunity under any patent is granted or implied by public viewing of this website. Colossal Storage patents concepts in this home page are for laboratory discussion and possible licensing and sale only. The specifications are subject to change without notice.
WORM , IBM and others use 2 laser photons - one for data and one for reference, the SLM - spatial light modulator approach writes large areas of data similar to silk screening data to a disk surface area making this technique impossible to use for rewritable bit/byte/word modifications. IBM, Lucent, Polaroid, and others use a plastic polymer, peptides, Energy Conversion Devices In.'s ovonic amorphous phase-change process is licensed by Imation and others, Dupont or Bayer Chemicals that can be easily melted and solidified for permanent data storage retention.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment.
