摘要:
An optical data storage medium is described. It comprises at least a substrate, having a surface with data stored in pits that are embossed into the substrate and in spaces separating the pits, a reflective layer covering the surface and having an intrinsic optical reflectivity R at a wavelength λ, a transparent cover stack formed on the reflective layer, the pattern of pits being readable through the cover stack by means of the focused radiation beam having the wavelength λ. The value of R on the spaces separating the pits is substantially different from the value of R on the bottom of the pits. An improved signal quality is achieved, e.g for BD-ROM discs. Further methods for manufacturing such a medium are described, e.g. inclined sputtering or selective etching.
摘要:
A record carrier comprises two layers that react with each other when irradiated to form a mark on the record carrier. The two layers are separated by a third layer that prevents direct contact of the two layers thus providing stability to the record carrier. By irradiating the third layer a region of the third layer is destroyed or altered whereby an opening is created and the reaction of the two layers is no longer prevented in that region and a mark can be formed. The size of the resulting opening determines the size of the mark and can thus be used to create a very small mark allowing high density recordings.
摘要:
A multi stack optical data storage medium (15) for recording and reading by means of a focused radiation beam (10) is described. The beam enters the medium (15) through a first entrance face (11), and has at least a first substrate (1) with on at least one side thereof: a first layer stack (2), comprising a first information layer, a second layer stack (4), comprising a second information layer. The second layer stack is present at a position closer to the first entrance face (11) than the first layer stack (2), and is separated from the first layer stack by a first transparent spacer layer (3). The first and the second layer stack each have an effective radiation beam reflection Re if between 0.04 and 0.08 according to the Blu-ray Disc (BD) standard specification. A third layer stack (6), comprising a third information layer, is present at a position closest to the first entrance face (11), and is separated from the second layer stack (4) by a second transparent spacer layer (5). The third layer stack has a radiation beam transmission T3 larger than 0.70, and the third information layer is a read only layer or a write once layer. A multi stack optical data storage medium is achieved which has increased data capacity and which has reflection values compatible with the dual stack BD standard specification.
摘要:
A dual-stack optical data storage medium (20) is described for read out using a focused radiation beam (29) with a wavelength of 400-410 nm and a Numerical Aperture (NA) of 0.84-0.86. The medium has a substrate (21) and a first stack of layers named L0 (22) comprising a first information layer and a second stack of layers named L1 (23), comprising a second information layer. A radiation beam (29) transparent spacer layer (24) is present between L0 and L1. A transmission stack named TS0 with a thickness dTS0 and an effective refractive index nTS0 contains all layers between L0 and an entrance face (26) of the medium (20). A transmission stack named TS1 with a thickness dTS1 and an effective refractive index nTS1 containing all layers between L1 and the entrance face (26). The spacer layer (24) has a thickness selected from the range 20-30 μm, the thickness dTS0 in dependence on the refractive index nTS0 and the thickness dTS1 in dependence on the refractive index nTS0 are within a specified area. In this way a reliable read out of both the first and the second information layer of respectively L0 and L1 is achieved.
摘要:
In an example embodiment, an electronic circuit comprises a memory matrix with rows and columns of memory cells. First row conductors are provided for each of the rows. Second row conductors correspond to pairs of rows, each successive row forming a respective pair with a preceding one of the rows, so that each pair overlaps with one row of the next pair. Column conductors are provided for each of the columns. Each of the memory cells comprises an access transistor, a node and a first and a second resistive memory element. The access transistor has a control electrode coupled to the first row conductor of the row of the memory cell, a main current channel coupled between the column conductor for the column of the memory cell and the node. The first and second the resistive memory element are coupled between the node and the second row conductors for the pairs of rows to which the memory cell belongs.
摘要:
A logic assembly (400) is composed from circuit elements of a single threshold and single conductivity type and comprises a logic circuitry (410) having at least a set of switches each having a main current path and a control terminal. The main current path forms a series arrangement having first and second conducting terminals coupled to power supply lines. The main current pathes being coupled to a common node that forms an output of logic assembly (400). The control terminals of said switches being coupled to clock circuitry for providing mutually non-overlapping clock signals to said control terminal. The logic assembly further comprises an output boosting circuit (420) for boosting the output of said logic assembly (400) including a capacitive means (421) for enabling supply of additional charge to the output of said logic assembly (400). It further includes a bootstrapping circuit (422) for enabling an additional supply of charge to a first end of said capacitive means, resulting in a boosted voltage at a second end of said capacitive means.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a drive for accessing an optical record carrier (2) comprising means (4) for determining the type of record carrier, in particular for distinguishing a read-only record carrier from a recordable or rewritable record carrier having a wobbled groove in the lead-in zone, said means comprising: a DPD measuring unit (41) for measuring the differential phase detection (DPD) signal, a PP measuring unit (42) for measuring the push-pull (PP) signal in case no DPD signal could be measured, a wobble locking unit (43) for locking, in case a PP signal could be measured, to the wobble embedded in said wobbled groove using a first and/or a second polarity setting, and an indication unit (44) for generating a first indication signal indicating that the record carrier is a read-only record carrier if a DPD signal could be measured and that the record carrier is a recordable or rewritable record carrier if no DPD signal but a PP signal could be measured and if locking to the wobble has been successful. In a further embodiment a second indication signal in generated indicating the type of polarity in case of a recordable or rewritable record carrier.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method and a corresponding device for recording marks representing data in an information layer of a record carrier by irradiating the information layer by means of a pulsed radiation beam, wherein a mark is written by a sequence of write pulses, the number of write pulses of the sequence for writing a mark of length NT, T being the length of a reference clock, being determined by application of a predetermined write strategy. In order to make use of new lasers and laser drivers generating shorter laser pulses and in order to enable precise mark edge positioning leading to less bit errors it is proposed that for writing a mark of length NT either a first write strategy using (N+k) write pulses, a second write strategy using trunk(N/2+k) write pulses, or a third write strategy using trunk(N/3+k) write pulses, k being an integer equal to or larger than one, is applied.
摘要:
An optical storage medium comprising a storage layer (4) and a first layer (5) covering the storage layer (4). The first layer (5) provides optical properties sufficient for data retrieval from the storage layer using a laser (8) with a first wavelength W1. A second layer covers the first layer (5) and provides optical properties sufficient for data retrieval from the storage layer using a laser with a second wavelength W2.
摘要:
The invention relates to an information carrier comprising at least a first area (12) comprising a first recordable material having thermal properties suitable for writing at a first recording speed and a second area (13) comprising a second recordable material having thermal properties suitable for writing at a second recording speed. The second recording speed is greater than the first recording speed.