Abstract:
The invention relates to an optical storage medium comprising below an entrance face (EF) a higher recording stack (ST0) comprising a higher recording layer (L0) and at least a lower recording stack (ST1), said lower recording stack (ST1) being recorded or read back by a radiation beam (4) entering into the optical storage medium through the entrance face (EF) with a wavelength (λ), focused on said lower recording stack (ST1) and transmitted through the higher recording stack (ST0), a recording of the higher recording layer (L0) causing an optical thickness variation between recorded and unrecorded areas of said first recording layer (L0), which is included into the range [0.03λ, 0.125λ].
Abstract:
An optical information recording medium having a surface excellent in flatness in which inter-mark interference is suppressed during recording operation, and its producing process. In the optical information recording medium (10) capable of reproducing information using laser light, a reflective layer (2) and a recording layer (5) are formed sequentially on a substrate (1) wherein the reflective layer (2) is formed of an alloy containing Al and Ni.
Abstract:
An optical information recording medium for recording, retrieving and erasing mark length-modulated amorphous marks, which comprises a substrate (1), and a lower protective layer (2), a phase-change recording layer (3), an upper protective layer (4) and a reflective layer (5) having a thickness of from 40 to 300nm and a volume resistivity of from 20 to 150n OMEGA .m, formed in this sequence on the substrate/wherein the reflective layer (5) has a multilayer structure wherein at least 50% of the total thickness of the reflective layer is constituted by at least one layer of a thin metal film having a volume resistivity of from 20 to 150n OMEGA .m.
Abstract:
An optical information recording medium for recording, retrieving and erasing mark length-modulated amorphous marks, which comprises a substrate (1), and a lower protective layer (2), a phase-change recording layer (3), an upper protective layer (4) and a reflective layer (5) having a thickness of from 40 to 300 nm and a volume resistivity of from 20 to 150 nΩ-m, formed in this sequence on the substrate, wherein the phase-change recording layer (3) is a thin film of an alloy of M w (Sb z Te 1-z ) 1-w , where 0≦w≦0.2, 0.5≦z≦0.9, and M is at least one member selected from the group consisting of In, Ga, Zn, Sn, Si, Cu, Au, Ag, Pd, Pt, Pb, Cr, Co, O, N, S, Se, Ta, Nb, V, Bi, Zr, Ti, Mn, Mo, Rh and rare earth elements and wherein the reflective layer (5) is made of an alloy of Al, inclusive of pure Al, having an impurity content of not more than 2 atomic % or an alloy of Au, inclusive of pure Au, having an impurity content of not more than 5 atomic %.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a high-density disk that is structured to prevent a collision of an optical pickup's objective lens with the high-density disk if the disk is placed upside down in a disk device that is able to record and reproduce signals to/from the high-density disk. A high-density disk recording medium according to the present invention has a reflecting thin film or label (601), formed on a surface opposite to a recording surface, to block a beam incident to an inserted disk not to travel up to a lead-in area, which a disk device tries to read first when a disk is placed, in the event that the inserted disk has been misplaced upside down.
Abstract:
An optical information recording medium for recording, retrieving and erasing mark length-modulated amorphous marks, which comprises a substrate, and a lower protective layer, a phase-change recording layer, an upper protective layer and a reflective layer having a thickness of from 40 to 300 nm and a volume resistivity of from 20 to 150 nΩ·m, formed in this sequence on the substrate wherein the reflective layer has a multilayer structure wherein at least 50% of the total thickness of the reflective layer is constituted by at least one layer of a thin metal film having a volume resistivity of from 20 to 150 nΩ·m.
Abstract:
An optical disc (1) for use as a compact disc, an optical video disc, or the like has a disc substrate (2) of a light-transmissive material such as polycarbonate, PMMA, or the like. The disc substrate (2) has a pattern (3) of pits and lands formed as representing an information signal on at least one surface thereof. A thin reflective layer (4) of a metallic material such as an alloy of Fe, Ni, and Co is deposited on the disc substrate over the pattern (3) of pits and lands, the thin reflective layer (4) having a reflectance ranging from 20 to 50% with respect to a light beam having a wavelength ranging from 380 to 820nm which will be applied from a light source to the optical disc for reading the information signal.
Abstract:
An optical disc (1) for use as a compact disc, an optical video disc, or the like has a disc substrate (2) of a light-transmissive material such as polycarbonate, PMMA, or the like. The disc substrate (2) has a pattern (3) of pits and lands formed as representing an information signal on at least one surface thereof. A thin reflective layer (4) of a corrosion-resistant metallic material such as an alloy of Fe, Ni, and Co is deposited on the disc substrate over the pattern (3) of pits and lands. The optical disc (1) is relatively inexpensive to manufacture as no protective layer is deposited on the reflective layer (4) and is also highly resistant to aging because the reflective layer (4) is made of a corrosion-resistant metallic material.
Abstract:
A recording medium having a reflective layer (6) on a transparent support (1) can be obtained by physical development of a layer of physical development nuclei (2) in the presence of metal ions. The ions can for instance migrate from a colloid layer of a metal salt (6). The association of developed nuclei, after physical development, results in a reflective layer with metal atoms obtained by reducing the metal ions, whose reflectivity is reduced on irradiation through the transparent support. The manufacture of such recording media does not require vacuum system.