Displaytech awarded $1.2 million holographic storage contract

LONGMONT – Displaytech Inc., a manufacturer of liquid crystal on silicon microdisplays, has received a $1.2 million contract from the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Advanced Technology Program to develop and write heads for holographic data storage.

The project is a joint venture with InPhase Technologies – also located in Longmont – which aims to develop drives for removable optical disks with a capacity greater than that of 1,000 CD-ROMs and perform comparable improvements in data rates over conventional magnetic and optical drives.

Successful drive development could yield inexpensive products with the same compact form factor as existing CD or DVD…