Phase-change recording medium for write once applications

• Main Authors: CUSHMAN, THOMAS RICHARD, VAZAN, FRIDRICH, FARRUGGIA, GIUSEPPE, TYAN, YUAN-SHENG, OLIN, GEORGE RUSSELL, PRIMERANO, BRUNO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 10.03.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS

A recording medium includes a transparent substrate (14); a crystalline phase-change layer (12) provided over the transparent substrate; a dielectric layer (16) provided over the phase-change layer; a metallic reflector layer (18) provided over the dielectric layer; and the crystalline phase-change...