Your Movie Collection on a Single Disk
Imagine storing mountains of information on one little plastic disc. Sound a bit ambiguous? OK, how about storing every song and every movie you have ever owned on one disc the size of a CD. Does it...
View ArticleGetting the Most out of a Disc
Holographic Storage sounds like something you might find on Star Trek, but in fact it has actually been around a while. The first papers on holographic storage were published in 1963, and people have...
View ArticleI Got One Word — Plastics
The key to Holographic Storage is the material in which we store the data. Again, unlike traditional optical media, where the plastic needs to simply be as transparent as possible, in holographic...
View ArticleFrom Peer Reviewed Journals to Mainstream Media
Holographic Storage is a great example of GE’s willingness to invest in fascinating, long-term research. GE’s growth strategy of investing in technology is something that people are starting to take...
View ArticleProgress with holographic storage technology
It has been a little while since I wrote an entry in the blog, but I thought I would take a minute to highlight the great progress we continue to make on our efforts to develop holographic storage...
View ArticleGE to Present on Holographic Storage
Happy New Year! We are certainly looking forward to an exciting year in 2008 as our program in Holographic Storage has grown to its biggest yet. We continue to push hard to develop the critical...
View ArticleGE logo written using micro-holograms
I was talking to a couple of colleagues the other day about times that we remembered when some technical innovation showed up on TV or in a newspaper article and had a real impact on us. One of those...
View ArticleHolographic Data Storage featured in Technology Review magazine
We recently spent some time talking to the folks at Technology Review about our efforts to develop holographic data storage. It was a great chance to explain how our technology works and how it is...
View ArticleAnother big step forward in GE’s holographic data storage program
If you have read the Technology section of today’s NY Times, or visited GE Reportsor Engadget, you will see that we are off to a pretty exciting start to 2009 on the Holographic Storage project so far....
View ArticleA new sleigh for Santa… courtesy of GE technology
GE Global Research has made it a tradition each year to showcase our latest and greatest technology developments during the holiday season. Last year, we had a lot of fun showcasing the first-ever OLED...
View ArticleChemical Technologies and Materials Characterization
My name is Vincent (Vin, Vince) Smentkowski and I am a surface chemist/analyst working in the Micro and Nano Analysis Laboratory (MNAL) which is one of the three characterization organizations within...
View ArticleBreakthrough in micro-holographic data storage
Hi All, I am happy to share an exciting breakthrough on GE’s Holographic Data Storage project. The research team has successfully demonstrated a micro-holographic material that can support data...
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