摘要:
An information storage system records on a medium with a magneto-optical storage layer (30) and a ferrimagnetic control layer. A higher power write beam is used to impose an upward magnetic orientation and a lower power write beam is used to impose a downward magnetic orientation in the domain. The control layer (50) has an initial downward magnetic orientation, the magnetization of regions of the control layer (50) can be inverted to an upward orientation temporarily while the region is heated above a compensation temperature. The magnetization of the region is restored to its initial downward orientation upon restoration of ambient temperature since neither the higher power nor the lower power write beam heats the control layer to its Curie temperature. The distributed optical and thermal properties of the medium are selected so that, upon heating of the medium by dissipated laser energy, the peak temperature of the control layer (50) occurs after the peak temperature for the storage layer (30). When the higher power write beam is used, the domain cools through its Curie temperature before the corresponding region cools through its compensation temperatures so that an upward magnetic orientation is established in the domain. When the lower power write beam is used, the domain cools through its Curie temperature after the corresponding region cools through its compensation temperature so that a downward magnetic orientation is established in the domain.
摘要:
A cold electron emitter (200, 200-1, 200-2) may include a heavily a p-doped semiconductor (230), and dielectric layer (245) , and a metallic layer (240) (p-D-M structure). A modification of this structure includes a heavily n+ doped region (220) below the p region (230) (n+-p-D-M structure). These structures make it possible to combine high current emission with stable (durable) operation. The high current density is possible since under certain voltage drop across the dielectric layer (245) , effective negative electron affinity is realized for the quasi-equilibrium "cold" electrons accumulated in the depletion layer in the p-region (230) next to the dielectric layer (245). These electrons are generated as a result of the avalanche in the p-D-M structure or injection processes in the n+-p-D-M structure. These emitters are stable since they make use of relatively low extracting field in the vacuum region and are not affected by contamination and absorption from accelerated ions. In addition, the structures may be fabricated with current state-of-the-art technology.
摘要:
A semi-conductor electron source (102) includes a planar emission region (114) for generating an electron emission, and a focusing structure (118, 120) for focusing the electron emission into an electron beam. The emission region (114) may be a porous region located in a layer on an active substrate (104). The focusing structure may include an aperture (122) through which electron emission is focused.
摘要:
Significantly improving in the contrast ratio of a visual image display (100) using a liquid crystal layer (128) and a fiber optic faceplate (102) with tilted fibers (114). One preferred embodiment of the visual image display (100) includes a liquid crystal layer (128), a first polarizer (122) and an optical fiber faceplate (102) with many substantially parallel fibers (114). Each fiber (114) has an axis (116) which forms an oblique angle with the normal to the front surface (133) of the liquid crystal layer (128). All the oblique angles are substantially equal to a typical oblique angle (118). The typical oblique angle (118) is selected along the direction that substantially maximizes the contrast ratio of the display (100).
摘要:
When doing multitrack seek or a single track jump, the midpoint between the maximum and the minimum of the tracking error signal is determined. A peak detector (31) detects the positive peak and the negative peak. These maximum and minimum values are stored in a sample and hold circuit (32). A summing circuit (33) determines the midpoint between the maximum and the minimum of the tracking error signal. An operational amplifier (35) provides a true error signal to the servo control system (14) that provides the appropriate servo operating point. The invention is based on the fact that even though there is no absolute reference signal indicating the appropriate on-track position, the tracking servo system (14) obtains the track error signal over the whole range of positions relative to track center when doing a multitrack seek or a single track jump. The appropriate servo operating point is the midpoint between the maximum and the minimum of the track error signal. This provides compensation for level shifts due to factors such as beam displacement, or detector mispositioning, changes in read/write beam profile, and disk tilt. The present invention solves the key disadvantage of the continuous groove tracking method by eliminating tracking offsets without adding additional information to the disk. It also avoids imposing overhead on the data channel. It compensates for effects of disk tilt, detector misalignment, detector and amplifier offsets, and beam decentration due to fine tracking.
摘要:
An information storage system records on a medium with a magneto-optical storage layer (30) and a ferrimagnetic control layer. A higher power write beam is used to impose an upward magnetic orientation and a lower power write beam is used to impose a downward magnetic orientation in the domain. The control layer (50) has an initial downward magnetic orientation, the magnetization of regions of the control layer (50) can be inverted to an upward orientation temporarily while the region is heated above a compensation temperature. The magnetization of the region is restored to its initial downward orientation upon restoration of ambient temperature since neither the higher power nor the lower power write beam heats the control layer to its Curie temperature. The distributed optical and thermal properties of the medium are selected so that, upon heating of the medium by dissipated laser energy, the peak temperature of the control layer (50) occurs after the peak temperature for the storage layer (30). When the higher power write beam is used, the domain cools through its Curie temperature before the corresponding region cools through its compensation temperatures so that an upward magnetic orientation is established in the domain. When the lower power write beam is used, the domain cools through its Curie temperature after the corresponding region cools through its compensation temperature so that a downward magnetic orientation is established in the domain.