Permanent erasable holographic storage has been demonstrated in a VO2 film by utilizing a change in an optical property which has a broad hysteresis at the insulator-to-metal phase transition. The implied coexistence of insulating and metallic phases at a single temperature indicates that a barrier exists which inhibits movement of the phase boundary.
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