摘要:
The invention is directed at a magneto-optical recording medium which is directly overwritable by light intensity modulation, does not require an initializing magnet, and has on the surface side of a substrate four magnetic layers, a memory layer M.sub.1, a writing layer W.sub.2, a switching layer S.sub.3, and an initializing layer I.sub.4. The magnetic layers each contain a rare earth element and a transition element, have perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at room temperature, and satisfy the relationships:Tc.sub.I4 >Tc.sub.W2 >Tc.sub.M1 and Tc.sub.I4 >Tc.sub.W2 >Tc.sub.S3wherein Tc.sub.M1, Tc.sub.W2, Tc.sub.S3 and Tc.sub.I4 are the Curie temperatures of M.sub.1, W.sub.2, S.sub.3 and I.sub.4, respectively. Writing layer W.sub.2 is composed mainly of dysprosium, iron and cobalt, contains from 29-35 atomic percent of rare earth elements, and has an atomic ratio Fe/(Fe+Co) of from 0.40 to 0.58. This medium has an improved CNR, minimizes deterioration in the CNR with repeated overwriting, enhances storage reliability, and has an increased output.
摘要:
Ultrafine particles of Fe-Co-P material with a Fe/Co atomic ratio of from 95/5 to 70/30 and a (Fe+Co)/P atomic ratio of from 85/15 to 60/40 show improved ferromagnetic properties. The average particle size is from 0.005 to 0.1 .mu.m. Such ultrafine particles are prepared through gas phase reaction by evaporating a source material. They are useful in both magnetic and thermomagnetic recording media ensuring high density recording.
摘要:
An optical recording medium and a method for testing that optical recording medium are provided, which can prevent degradation of a reproduction signal in the case where the optical recording medium is stored at a high temperature for a long time, which enables stable recording and reproduction of data before and after the high-temperature storage, and which can achieve high-speed recording and increase of recording density. In the optical recording medium, a reproduction signal output of a recording mark after high-temperature storage that is formed in a recording layer after the optical recording medium is stored at a storage temperature t in a range from 60° C. to 90° C. for at least 50−(4/3)(t−60) hours is 0.9 times or more a reproduction signal output of a recording mark before the high-temperature storage that has the same bit length as the recording mark after the high-temperature storage and is formed before the above high-temperature storage.
摘要:
An information recording method enables the precise formation of a recording mark on a recording layer having a high light transmittance such as an L1 layer of a double-layered optical recording medium. The information recording method uses the following recording strategy. A laser beam is pulse-modulated so as to create a pulse series including a write pulse of a recording power and a cooling pulse of a base power. Data to be recorded is modulated to have a length of a recording mark along a track of the recording layer. At the same time, the length of the recording mark is made to correspond to an integral multiple nT of T where T is one clock cycle. An nT recording mark corresponding to nT is recorded by using the same number of write pulses and cooling pulses when n is 4 or larger. Moreover, an average width AveTc for a single cooling pulse width Tc is set to satisfy: 1.0
摘要:
A high-speed, write-once type optical recording medium, which utilizes laser light that is either blue or an even shorter wavelength, as well as an optical recording method and an optical recording apparatus for recording onto this optical recording medium.A high-speed, write-once type optical recording medium 10 having a recording layer 18 and a light transmission layer 22 formed sequentially on top of a support substrate 12, wherein the recording layer 18 is formed by laminating first and second vice-recording layers 18A, 18B which include Al and Sb respectively as primary components, and irradiation of a laser light of blue wavelength from a laser light source 24, through the light transmission layer 22 and onto the recording layer 18, causes diffusion and mixing of the Al and Sb contained within the first and second vice-recording layers 18A, 18B, and this mixing enables the formation of a recording mark based on an irreversible change in reflectance. The thickness of the recording layer 18 is set to enable recording at a recording transfer rate of at least 35 Mbps.
摘要:
A write-once type optical recording medium is provided, which is low-cost and capable of maintaining the recording and reproducing stability high while enabling the relative ratio of read power to write power to be set high.The high-speed write-once type optical recording medium 10 includes a recording layer 18 that is constituted by laminating first and second subsidiary recording layers 18A and 18B each having one type of metal, for example Al and Sb respectively, as the main component. In the optical recording medium 10 having such constitution, the ratio between write power Pw and read power Pr, Pw/Pr is set to a value in the range of 2.0 to 8.0. When the recording layer 18 is irradiated with laser beam with a wavelength of 200 nm to 450 nm and a write power Pw of 2.5 to 5.0 mW at a recording-transferring rate of at least 35 Mps, Al and Sb contained in the subsidiary recording layers 18A and 18B respectively are diffused and mixed by the irradiation to form a recording mark that has a low reflectance, has been transformed to a single layer, and has been changed irreversibly.
摘要:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a data rewritable type optical recording medium which includes a plurality of recording layers and in which data reading characteristics and reproducing characteristics of the respective recording layers can be improved. An optical recording medium according to the present invention includes an L1 recording layer 30 and an L0 recording layer 20 formed on a support substrate 11, and a transparent intermediate layer 12 formed between the L1 recording layer 30 and the L0 recording layer 20. The L0 recording layer 20 includes a recording film 24, a first dielectric film 25 disposed in contact with the recording film 24 on the side of the light incidence plane 13a, a second dielectric film 23 disposed in contact with the recording film 24 on the side of the support substrate 11, a transparent heat radiation film 26 disposed in contact with the first dielectric film 25 on the side of the light incidence plane 13a, a translucent reflective film 22 disposed in contact with the second dielectric film 23 on the side of the support substrate 11 and a base protect film 21 disposed between the translucent reflective film 22 and the transparent intermediate layer 12. The thickness of the second dielectric film 23 is set to be thinner than 15 nm and the thickness of the translucent reflective film 22 is set to be thinner than 20 nm.
摘要:
A method for initializing recording films of an optical recording medium includes two recording layers each including a recording film and which is formed so that a transparent intermediate layer is interposed between each adjacent pair of the recording layers, by projecting a laser beam whose power can be controlled within a predetermined range onto the recording films and simultaneously crystallizing and initializing the recording films, the method for initializing recording films of an optical recording medium including steps of setting a power of the laser beam and a position of a focus of the laser beam so that energy of the laser beam projected onto each of the recording films is equal to or higher than a minimum initialization energy which can crystallize and initialize the recording film irradiated with the laser beam, and projecting the laser beam onto the recording films of the optical recording medium. According to this method, it is possible to efficiently simultaneously crystallize and initialize recording films of the two recording layers of an optical recording medium with an apparatus of simple structure.
摘要:
To obtain a write-once high density optical recording medium capable of a high speed recording, and to effectively form space between recording marks. The recording layer 18 of the high speed write-once optical recording medium 10 is formed by laminating a first sub recording layer 18A and a second sub recording layer 18B each containing a metal as its main component. When the recording layer (laminated recording layer) 18 is irradiated with a laser beam, the main component metals contained in the first and second sub recording layers 18A, 18B diffuse and are mixed together by means of the irradiation, thereby forming recording marks whose reflectance have been irreversibly changed due to such mixing. At this time, after an irradiation using a laser beam for forming recording marks, a power level P1 lower than a read power is maintained for a predetermined time T1.
摘要:
Provided is a medium having a phase change recording layer wherein crystallization of the recording layer is facilitated, and at the same time, wherein the region to be crystallized is crystallized at an accurate dimension. The optical recording medium has a recording layer 4 comprising at least one phase change layer 41 and at least one functional layer 42 in contact with said phase change layer. The phase change layer 41 in its as-deposited state is amorphous, and crystals having Fm3m structure or R3m structure are produced upon crystallization of this layer. The functional layer 42 in its as-deposited state is crystalline, and contains crystals having Fm3m structure. The material used for the functional layer 42 is the one which exhibits a thermal conductivity of 0.03 to 5 W/cmK as measured in thin film form of 100 nm thick.