A SEMINAR REPORT ON FLUORESCENT MULTILAYER DISC

PREPARED BY: SHAH NILAY K. 6TH E.C.

INTRODUCTION

IN PRESENT TIME PEOPLE STORING DATA IN HIGH QUALITY. TECHNOLOGY IS IN PROGRESS SO DATA ARE GROWING FASTER, SO, A USEUAL CD OR DVD IS FAR NOT ENOUGH. SO THE COMPANY CONSTELLATION 3D DEMONSTRATES A NEW FORMAT: FMD(FLUROSCENT MULTILAYER DISC), WHICH CAN SOON BECOME A LEADER.

CD-ROM

THE CD-ROM STANDARED WASNESTABLISHED IN 1984. DATA BITS ARE PERMANENTLY STORED ON A CD IN THE FORM OF PHYSICALLY MOLDED PITS IN THE SURFACE OF PLASTIC DATA LAYER THAT IS COATED WITH REFLECTIVE ALLUMINIAM. NEVER TOUCHES THE DISC BECOUSE MOST SCRATCHES AND DUST ON THE DISC SURFACE OUT OF FOCUS, SO THEY DO NIT INTERFACE THE READING PROCESS. ITS CAPACITY IS 650 MB AND ITS MAXIMUM DATA TRANSFER RATES IS 5 MB/SEC.

DVD ROM
THE DVD-ROM STANDARED WASNESTABLISHED IN 1995. DVD PROVIDES SEVEN TIME STORAGE CAPACITY OF CD DISCS. DVD-ROM DRIVES ROTATE THE DISC MORE SLOWLY THEN CD DRIVES,BECAUSE THE DATA DENSITY IS MUCH GREATER THAN ON CDs. ITS CAPACITY IS 4.7 GB AND DUAL LAYER DVD HAS CAPACITY OF 8.5 GB AND ITS MAXIMUM DATA TRANSFER RATES IS 1,250KB/SEC.

FLUORESCENT MULTI LAYER DISC

FMD IS A TOTALLY CLEAR DISC INSTADE OF A SINGLE LAYER, DATA IS STORED ON FLUORESENT MATERIALS IN MULTIPLE LAYERS. THE FIVE INCH DISC WHICH IS SAME SIZE AS CDs AND DVDs FIGURE SHOWS HOW AN FMD LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN SEE THAT DISC IS TRANSPARANT AND THERE IS NO REFLECTINE LAYER THE MATTER IS THAT THE TECHNOLOGY DOSENT NEED IT.

CONSEPT OF STABLE PHOTOCHROME

IN FMD THERE IS NO REFLECTED LASER BEAM: WHEN A LESER REACHES AN INFORMATIONAL LAYER THE LATTER START RADIATING. THE PRINCIPLE OF OPERATIN OF FM-DISCS IS BASED ON PFENOMENON OF PHOTOCHROMISM. SOME YEARS AGO RUSSIAN CHEMISTS DISCOVERED A STABLE ORGANIC MATERIAL A STABLE PHOTOCHROME WHICH WHEN ACTED UPON BY A LASER BEAM OBTAINS FLUORESENT PROPERTIES. THE INFORMATION ELEMENT OF FMD CAN CHANGE ITS PHYSICAL PROPERTY

READING FROM FMD

WHEN READING, THIS MATTER BECOMES EXCITED AGAIN BUT WITH A LESAR OF LOWER POWER THE FLUORESCENCE IS CAUGHT UP BY A PHOTO RECEIVER AND IS FIXED AS A VALUE 1.

PARALLEL READING

THE DEVELOPERS STATES THAT WITH A BLUE LASER ITS POSSIBLE TO INCCREASE RECORD DENSITY UP TO TERABYTE ON A DISC. ANOTHER FEATURE IS PARALLEL READING, WICH WILL BE DEALT LATER. IF WE RECORD A SEQUENCE OF BITS NOT ALONG A TRACK BUT DEEP INTO LAYERS WE CAN INCREASE SPEED OF DATA ACCESS. THATS THE WAY SUCH DICS IS CALLED 3-DIMENSIONAL

PRODUCTION OF FMD

HOT STAMPING IS A PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF FMD. IN THIS METHOD EACH LAYER IS REACHED BY PRESSING OF POLYCARBON LAYER WITH TWO STAMPS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE. SO WE RECEIVE ONE LAYER WITH TWO INFORMATIONAL SIDE. IN FIGURE YOU CAN SEE 7 LAYER DISC.

RECORDING ON FMD

WHEN RECORDING YOU SHOULD HAVE FOLLOW TWO RULS: SUFFICIENT POWER OF A LASER IN ORDER TO PROVIDE AN ELEMENT WITH FLUORESCENT PROPERTIES THRESHOLD POWER OF LASER SHOULD BE USED FOR RECORDING AND FOR READING MUST BE USED LESS POWER FIGURE SHOWS THE PARALLEL RECOARDING

SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES

THE FMD DISC WILL HOLD 140 GB-1 TB OF DATA DEPENDING ON MARKET NEED. READING OF SEVERAL LAYERS AT A TIME AND MULTIPLE TRACKS AT A TIME NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE USING THE CD AND DVD IS EASILY ACHIVED IN FMD. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR RETRIEVAL SPEED OF UP TO 1 GB/SEC.

FMD FOR MAC USERS

FOR THE MAC USERS COMPANY C3D HAS GIVEN THE FIRST PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS OF ITS HIGHCAPACITY OPTICAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGY. WHICH IS STORE DATA UP TO 100 GB, IS EXPECTED TO BE AVAILABE AS PRODICTS BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR.

COMPARISON BETWEEN CD,DVD AND FMD

PARAMETER DICS DIAMETER,MM CAPACITY IN GB NUMBER OF LAYERS FORMAT TOTAL WIDTH OF INFORMATION LAYERS IN MICRON WAVELENGTH IN NM CD 120 0.64 1 CD 0.11 DVD 120 8.5 2 DVD 2 FMD 130 1024 12 MODIFIED DVD 275

780

635-650

532

APPLICATION
NO. NEW APPLICATIONS 1 2 3 4 5 DIGITAL CINEMA MOBILE COMPUTING DIGITAL CAMERAS PDAs DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS REQUIRED CAPACITY 100 GB 5 GB 5 GB 1 GB 40 GB

CONCLUSION

MANS NEED FOR ADDITIONAL STORAGE SPACE SOMETHING THAT IS EVER INCREASING BUT FOR NOW THE FMD WHICH PROVIDE SPEED OF 1GB/S AND CAPASITY OF 1 TERABYTE.

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