PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF AMORPHICITY, STRUCTURAL CHANGE, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION ENCODING

Abstract
Information and energy are areas of greatest importance to our highly technological society. Restrictions of crystalline synimetry and depletion of natural material resources have made both these subjects materials limited. Amorphous materials are the common media for the expression of the transformational processes of energy and information. The ability to synthesize materials in which many elements of the periodic table are combined in ways previously forbidden to them by crystalline constraints opens up new fields of invention and application as well as the new area of science that is rapidly growing.