New Kind of Ultraviolet Lasers and LEDs are Coming

May 1, 2013 Miranda Drake

New Kind of Ultraviolet Lasers and LEDs are Coming, Overclockers Club, April 30, 2013. A primary reason why CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray disks contain different amounts of data is that they use different frequencies of light to encode the information. Researchers have been trying for some time to use zinc oxide to create ultraviolet lasers, and now those at North Carolina State University have succeeded.

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