A new digital data storage device, the principle of which is unique in the world, was invented by pupils from Nizhny Novgorod (Pozzoliy). The creation of the three students of the physical-mathematical high school passed to the end of the Google Science Fair 2013.
The principle of operation of the device is based on the interaction of the beam laser with plexiglass. The children found an original application in this process, the physics teacher of the young inventors from Nizhny Novgorod Lyceum Natalya Vargina told "Voice of Russia":
Today there are many creations, in which they have experimentally clarified the nature of the interaction of the laser beam with Plexiglas. And the guys decided to use the results of this experiment, which simply shows that holes can be made in Plexiglas. But that this can be used for optical data storage is their idea. The guys figured out how to encode the data, and now they're continuing to work on it theme that, they also think about other things, perform calculations, laboratory measurements.
The size of the data storage medium proposed by the students is comparable to a 4 mm thick A1 paper. On a similar sheet data of the order of 28 can be written terabytes – 14 times more than on a computer hard drive. This storage medium has many important advantages, points out one of the creators of the invention, Nikita Chernyadev:
First of all is the volume of data, which is recorded in a unit surface. The volume increases thanks to the increase in the density of information recording. And secondly, it's reliability. These are the two main advantages over similar existing media.
The children worked for six months to develop their invention, while with the technology information they began to engage with enthusiastically three years ago.
"It all started a long time ago in the seventh grade when we started to participate in the design activities of the school," said 16 Nikita, whose age is a long time for a few years:
We will present the project to the "Open Innovation" conference in Moscow. We also want to take part in the ROTT competition (Russia-Responsibility-Strategy-Technologies) in Nizhny Novgorod. It will enable us to go on to the competition for scientific and engineering projects IntelISEF (IntelInternationalScienceandEngineeringFair) in the US.
The Russian pupil's plan by Nizhny Novgorod provoked the interest of the Russian Academy of Sciences: it was experimentally tested at the Institute of Applied Physics of RAE. Now children are developing the device. According to the young inventors, "the deadline is within two or three weeks". The new data storage medium, as the children point out, is not intended for ordinary users but for big companies that have a large volume of data.
