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Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Rubber stamp writes data Scientists from IBM's Almaden research center have found a way to quickly transfer information from a magnetic mask to a magnetic disk. The method promises to make it considerably quicker to format and copy magnetic media in bulk.
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InternetNews January 18, 2006 Clint Boulton	Seagate Ships Powerful Notebook Drive Top hard drive maker Seagate Technology said it has begun shipping the first 2.5-inch notebook PC disk drive built on the new perpendicular recording technology.
Chemistry World January 4, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Laser guided maglev graphite air hockey A graphite disk levitating over a bed of rare earth permanent magnets can be 'pushed' around or made to spin using a laser beam, Japanese scientists have shown. The phenomenon can also be used to convert sunlight into movement, offering a possible alternative way to harness solar energy.
PC Magazine May 17, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	More Gigs Seagate Technology has finally brought its perpendicular recording technology into the desktop drive market.
InternetNews January 4, 2007 Andy Patrizio	SanDisk Preps Flash Drives For Notebooks SanDisk is making the leap from portable Flash drives to hard disk replacements for laptops with the introduction of a 32 GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive as an alternative to the magnetic hard disk.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Laser pulses could speed memory Researchers from the Research Institute for Materials in the Netherlands and Siemens AG in Germany have found a way to switch a magnetic bit more quickly. The potential payoff is faster computer memory.
CIO December 15, 2003 Christopher Lindquist	Upright Data Storage The engineers charged with finding ever more clever ways to stuff extra bits into a given square inch of magnetic platter are beginning to encounter the physical limits of current techniques. New advances in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology, however, may continue the density trend.
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Wired November 24, 2008 Erin Biba	Rocket Scientist's Laser Scalpel Targets Individual Cells Researcher Adela Ben-Yakar is developing a laser capable of vaporizing individual cells, one at a time.
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InternetNews January 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	First Hybrid Cars, Now Hybrid Hard Drives Drive makers marry Flash memory with a hard disk to reduce HD use, power consumption.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers.
Chemistry World October 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New light shed on 'photothermal' cell death Photothermal therapy - where tiny particles of a metal are introduced into a cell and heated by laser light to kill the cell - might not work in the way people think, researchers in the UK have discovered.
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InternetNews December 2, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Hitachi/Intel Push Solid State Drives Forward The alliance between Hitachi and Intel will make SSD drives finally start to live up to their potential, instead of being treated like hard drives.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Saswato R. Das	Tabletop EUV Light Source South Korean research team demonstrates an economical way to generate EUV light using femtosecond laser pulses.
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IndustryWeek March 1, 2004 John Teresko	Peening With Light: New Laser, New Benefits Add speed and lower cost to laser peening's performance advantages. All users gain weight-free strengthening and lower maintenance characteristics -- issues especially important to fuel conscious aerospace and automotive applications.
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage	The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology
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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008	Aculight Introduces Eye-Safe Fiber Laser for Military Ladar Applications Aculight has introduced an eye-safe, high-power, pulsed fiber laser called the Perseus-TS for integration into military laser direction and ranging systems.
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	Military May Be Souring On Laser Weapons The Pentagon's enthusiasm for laser weapons is not what it used to be.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.
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Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Laser bursts pierce fog Researchers in France have shown that it is possible to fire laser beams through otherwise impenetrable clouds, haze and fog. This means it could be possible to transmit data through these opaque media and remotely sense objects or chemicals within clouds, haze or fog.
InternetNews December 23, 2005 Clint Boulton	Seagate-Maxtor Bid Elicits Concerns While Seagate officials fervently described how good its purchase of rival hard disk drive maker Maxtor will be for the company, the bid left some analysts scratching their heads.
AboutSafety May 8, 2001	Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely...
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger	Laser Cinema, Coming Someday to a Theater Near You--Maybe Engineers in China have built a laser digital cinema projector
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Laser Light Cast on Quantum Evolution Researchers have demonstrated for the first time why a technique called coherent control is able to break molecular bonds selectively using finely-tuned pulses of laser light.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Paul Wallich	DIY Laser Engraver A recycled DVD laser makes a great engraving tool
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	Coherent's 100-Watt Diode Bar Can Combine with Others to Produce Kilowatt-Class Lasers The primary application for the diode laser bar is as a pump light source for use in solid state lasers for medical and industrial applications.
InternetNews June 25, 2007 Paul Shread	Call/Recall Pushes Optical Limits A private company with roots in Bell Labs hopes to put optical storage on the enterprise map with new technology that squeezes 1TB on a single disk and offers transfer rates that compete with hard disk drives.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	Fiber Laser Sales to Grow 26 Percent Annually Through 2011 Many key questions remain, such as how fast and how much market share can kilowatt fiber lasers gain from carbon dioxide lasers in sheet metal cutting? And, how much vertical integration is necessary to succeed in the fiber laser market?
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InternetNews June 16, 2005 Henry Newman	Why Tape Won't Die Issues such as cost, capacity, power, portability and bandwidth will ensure that tape continues to be a reasonable storage alternative to disk.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Test Fires Powerful, Continuously Pulsed Illuminator Laser A new diode-pumped solid-state, next-generation illuminator laser developed delivered multikilowatt output power while operating at 5,000 pulses per second during recent tests, company officials reported.
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