The spin-out has obtained an exclusive license to commercialise the technology from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).

Folio Photonics, a spin-out from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), has been granted an exclusive license from the Ohio-based institution to commercialise technology that will allow optical discs with a capacity of two terabytes (as much as 40 standard BluRays). 

Developed at the university’s Centre for Layered Polymer Systems by founder Kenneth D. Singer, professor of physics, the license was granted through the university’s technology transfer office, and is for the length of the patents, i.e. at least 20 years.

The…