Dr. Eugen Pavel is a Romania

Romania

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n scientist and the inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM

Hyper CD-ROM

The Hyper CD-ROM is an optical data storage device similar to the CD-ROM with a multilayer 3D structure, invented by Romanian scientist Dr. Eugen Pavel.- Characteristics :...

, a 3D optical data storage

3D optical data storage

3D optical data storage is the term given to any form of optical data storage in which information can be recorded and/or read with three dimensional resolution ....

 medium with a claimed initial capacity of 10 TB

Terabyte

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 and with a theoretical capacity of 1 PB

Petabyte

A petabyte is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB...

 on a single disc. It is considered by some to be the next revolution in computer storage

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Dr. Pavel graduated with a physics

Physics

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 degree

Bachelor's degree

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 from the University of Bucharest

University of Bucharest

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 in 1976. He was awarded the Romanian Academy

Romanian Academy

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 Prize in 1991 and obtained his doctorate

Doctorate

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 in Physics from the Romanian Institute of Atomic Physics in 1992.

He won the "Prix International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique" and a gold medal at the November 1999 EUREKA

EUREKA

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 Contest in Brussels

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 for inventions that led to the creation of the Hyper CD-ROM. Dr. Pavel has published more than 40 books and articles, and he is the holder of 62 patents and patent applications.

In an interview about his work on the Hyper CD-ROM, Dr. Pavel stated that "the research for this project is 100% personal, (and) so is the support for experiments." (English translation of quote originally published in Romanian

Romanian language

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Dr. Pavel's Hyper CD-ROM technology is patented in 21 countries: the USA, Canada, Japan, Israel and 17 European states.
USA company Constellation 3D

Constellation 3D

Constellation 3D was a company developing a new optical medium, the Fluorescent Multilayer Disc and Card .The company was shut down following a failure to receive a committed investment by a Swiss based investor and the unavailability of other financial sources...

  announced on June 7, 2000 a similar optical storage media under the name Fluorescent Multilayer Disc

Fluorescent Multilayer Disc

Fluorescent Multilayer Disc was an optical disc format developed by Constellation 3D that uses fluorescent, rather than reflective materials to store data. Reflective disc formats have a practical limitation of about two layers, primarily due to interference, scatter, and inter-layer cross talk...

Recently Hyper CD-ROM was reported again but it is not clear what progress has been made since first announcement in 2000.