Atomic Holographic Nanotechnology will Set the Pace for the Future

Colossal Storage has created a unique Rewritable new storage media using ultraviolet photon induced electric field poling using a ferroelectric perovskite dipole dielectric material. We hope our peripheral storage device will revolutionize data storage for the next 100 years or more. A Technical Comparison of Hard Drive Technology is shown.

All other known holographic research technologies other than Colossal Storage nanoTechnology have used electrons clouds to store data. Colossal feels this method can never overcome the Niels Bohr Atomic Theory of electron recapture and therefore this type of recording is usually destructive readout making them WORM drives having a short data storage shelf life.

Colossal feels its 3D method of bit for bit rewritable storage technique similar to present day hard drives can beat any other holographic technologies SLOW Page SLM writing method in bandwidth and real time data bit repeatability.

Molecular dissociation following Thomas' patents cover methods for a non-contact ultraviolet / blue laser photon induced electric field poling using UV at the same wavelength as a molecular transition will create controllable clouds of electrons in harmonic waves (plasmon).

Some organic/inorganic molecules have resonant valence orbit electrons that under the proper Quantum UV/Blue photoexcitation allow conduction band electrons to move freely for a short time. Plasmon known as electric current along with the electric field present providing a mechanism for ferroelectric perovskite molecules to switch binary positions. The unique concept of resonant absorption excitation by UV/Blue light causing molecular dissociation and simultaneous electric field application ( Pockels effect ) can be used for writing 3D volume data so when it is read back having coherent interference waves in a beam of UV/Blue photon radiation.

The electrons in ferroelectric materials can be trapped in 2 or more directions causing the center atom of the dipole molecule to change internal geometric positions. This causes the absorption spectrum of the ferroelectric molecule to change creating absorption bands for the UV/Deep Blue photons during reading.

These absorption bands by the electronic traps and the refraction by the central atom appear as light and dark patterns.

The single frequency creates many bright or dark bands from the UV light that are in phase or out of phase with one another. The diffraction by the bistable state nucleus in the center of ferroelectric dipole molecule can therefore be represented as a binary 0 or 1.

Ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals offer the possibility of controlling and manipulating light within a UV/Deep Blue frequency. The small size of ferroelectric transparent structures makes it possible to fabricate nano-optical devices like volume holographic storage having both positive and negative index of refraction.

The ability to control the diffraction of Ultraviolet photons makes the ferroelectric perovskite NLO photonic materials very attractive for the research and development of 3D volume holographic optical storage. Furthermore, ferroelectric non-linear photonic crystal structures provide the ability for infinite rewritability of a non-volatile holographic storage drive.

The outstanding potentials of ferroelectric molecular materials will revolutionize 3D volume holographic optical storage technologies along with several challenges in design, optimization, fabrication, and characterization an provide for further extensive research and development activities in the field of ferroelectric holographic materials and data storage.

All other holographic storage technology use a spacial/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 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 / reading is like having billions of vertical spatial light modulated ( SLM ) pages in one rewritable ferroelectric track, each fedrive having almost a million tracks. Imagine having billions of SLM on the disk where the optical image data is written / read in bit / byte / word accurately every time at atomic light speeds.

The 3D Volume Holographic Read / Write device will be able to read 1.5 million of the 300 or less nM spots in typical 5 in. disk with 18 inches circumference (one track).

Data in one(1) 300 or less nMeter spot ( this is instantaneous data in parallel read format, infinite reading a little faster than infinite writing) is calculated by taking the

(X)dimension 400 ferroelectric molecules times (Y)dimension 400 molecules times (Z)dimension 100 molecules equals 16,000,000 bits read per 300 or less nMeter spot or >> 40,000 Colossal bits for every magnetic hard drive bit.

In conclusion, there are 1.5 x 10 to 6th (300 nMeter) spots times 16,000,000 bits per spot equals 24,000,000,000,000, bits read in one revolution on one track of the disk having Extreme Bandwidth Data Transfers.

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FeDrive and FeHead are the trade names for the integrated semiconductor ferroelectric device concepts of Colossal Storage, Pocomoke City, Md.

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