Optical data storage does not require expensive magnetic
materials as synthetic alternatives work just as well. This is the finding of
an international team from York, Berlin and Nijmegen, published Thursday
February 27 in Applied Physics Letters. The team’s discovery brings the much
cheaper method for storing data using light a step closer. It was Professor
Rasing, physicist at Radboud University Nijmegen and FOM workgroup leader, who
came up with the new synthetic material.