Abstract:
A multiple data layer optical disk drive system has fixed aberration correction and uses a disk with maximum interlayer spacing for reduced interlayer crosstalk. In one embodiment the multiple data layer disk has a substrate with a thickness that is reduced by approximately one-half the thickness of the spacer layer that separates the first and last data layers. The disk is designed to operate with a lens that has spherical aberration correction to compensate for the thickness of a conventional single data layer disk. This allows the disk drive to handle multiple data layer disks as well as to be backward compatible and thus handle conventional single data layer disks. The thickness of the substrate material plus one-half the thickness of the spacer layer material (which may have a different index of refraction than the substrate material) is equivalent, for purposes of spherical aberration correction, to the thickness of the substrate material used in the conventional single data layer disk. The focused spot with minimum spherical aberration is thus located at the middle of the spacer layer rather than on the first data layer. The spacer layer thickness is selected so that when the focused spot is located on either the first or last data layer there is some deliberately designed spherical aberration, although an amount that is acceptable. As a result the thickness of the spacer layer can be significantly increased to thereby reduce interlayer crosstalk. In another embodiment that substrate thickness and spacer layer thickness are selected and then the lens is corrected for spherical aberration corresponding to the thickness of substrate material plus one-half the thickness of spacer layer material.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical data storage device provided with an optical disk drive mechanism and a plurality of data layer magneto-optical medium. SOLUTION: A magneto-optical medium is provided with a substrate 50, a first dielectric layer 130, a first magneto-optical data layer 132, a second dielectric layer 134, a transmitting member 78, a third dielectric layer 140, a second magneto-optical data layer 142, a fourth dielectric layer 144, and a reflection layer 146. The thickness of the magneto-optical layers and dielectric layer are selected so that magneto-optical reading of a signal received from the data layer is made optimum. A disk drive mechanism has a phase retarder improving the signal from the optical data layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical data storage system with which even data from any data layer of an optical medium consisting of plural data is clearly read. SOLUTION: The optical data storage system suitable to a large capacity of storage is composed of the optical medium having a multiple data surface and a driving device including an optical head. A desired data surface is irradiated with laser beams and reflected light is used as a signal by the driving device. When data in a deep data layer is read, since light has to pass through many layers, a weak signal only is obtained. Consequently, signal intensity is difference depending on the data surface. Respective data surface is optimized so that the signal intensity from each data surface becomes nearly equal by using the medium having a coated dielectric reflecting layer and by suitably selecting the coating material and its thickness. In the preferable embodiment, semiconductor material is stuck onto each data surface and the reflecting quantity is decided by the thickness.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical data memory system which uses an optical medium having plural recording layers. SOLUTION: The substrate supports recording stacks 90, 92 of plural layers which are spatially separated, and the stacks contain recording layers 53, 64 comprising reversible or rewritable phase transition material in an active state. The recording stack 90 nearest to the substrate where laser light irradiates the surface 49 contains a reverse-writing type reversible phase transition material, namely a phase transition material which having an amorphous initiating phase in which recording is done by heating with a laser beam to change the data region into a crystalline phase. The first recording layer 53 is in contact with dielectric layers 51, 55. These dielectric layers have a higher refractive index than that of the adjacent recording layer and act as optical interference thin film so that these layers give an optical interference effect to enhance the light in the recording stack. These optical interference thin films do not absorb light so that the laser light can be focused on the recording layer in the recording stack 92.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical data storage system with which data from any data layer of an optical medium consisting of a plurality of data layers is clearly read. SOLUTION: The optical data storage system suitable to a large capacity storage is composed of the optical medium having a multiple data surface and a driving device including an optical head. A desired data surface is irradiated with laser beams and reflected light is used as a signal by the driving device. When data in a deep data layer is read, since light has to pass through many layers, only a weak signal is obtained. Consequently, signal intensity is difference depending on the data surface. Respective data surface is optimized so that the signal intensity from each data surface becomes nearly equal by using the medium having a coated dielectric reflecting layer and by suitably selecting the coating material and its thickness. In the preferable embodiment, semiconductor material is stuck onto each data surface and the reflecting quantity is decided by the thickness. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic recording medium for keeping good thermal stability and SNR and supporting ultra high-density recording. SOLUTION: This magnetic recording medium for a data storage device is constituted of at least two magnetic recording layers of ferromagnetic films, which are adhered to each other in an antiferromagnetic manner, while interposing a nonferromagnetic spacer film. Magnetic moment of one ferromagnetic film works in the direction antiparallel to that of the magnetic moment of the other ferromagnetic film. The balanced magnetic moment is shown as the difference between Mrt values of two ferromagnetic films, when the magnetic moment is shown by net product (Mrt) of residual magnetism (Mr) and thickness (t) in the magnetic recording layer. The decrease in Mrt is achieved, while the thermal stability of the recording medium is not deteriorated, because the volume of particles in ferromagnetic films adhered to each other in an antiferromagnetic manner is increased constructively. Very sharp magnetic transitions can be achieved by the reduced antimagnetic field and higher density of the bit lines can be obtained in this medium as a result.
Abstract:
A multiple data layer optical disk drive system has fixed aberration correction and uses a disk with maximum interlayer spacing for reduced interlayer crosstalk. In one embodiment the multiple data layer disk has a substrate with a thickness that is reduced by approximately one-half the thickness of the spacer layer that separates the first and last data layers. The disk is designed to operate with a lens that has spherical aberration correction to compensate for the thickness of a conventional single data layer disk. This allows the disk drive to handle multiple data layer disks as well as to be backward compatible and thus handle conventional single data layer disks. The thickness of the substrate material plus one-half the thickness of the spacer layer material (which may have a different index of refraction than the substrate material) is equivalent, for purposes of spherical aberration correction, to the thickness of the substrate material used in the conventional single data layer disk. The focused spot with minimum spherical aberration is thus located at the middle of the spacer layer rather than on the first data layer. The spacer layer thickness is selected so that when the focused spot is located on either the first or last data layer there is some deliberately designed spherical aberration, although an amount that is acceptable. As a result the thickness of the spacer layer can be significantly increased to thereby reduce interlayer crosstalk. In another embodiment that substrate thickness and spacer layer thickness are selected and then the lens is corrected for spherical aberration corresponding to the thickness of substrate material plus one-half the thickness of spacer layer material.
Abstract:
Described is an optical data storage system which comprises a multiple data surface medium (12) and optical head. The medium comprises a plurality of substrates (50,56,62,68) separated by a light transmissive medium. Data surfaces are located on the substrate surfaces which lie adjacent to a light transmissive medium. The data surfaces are substantially light transmissive. Some of the data recorded in the first data surface represent the number of separate data surfaces contained in the medium.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium for data storage uses a magnetic recording layer having at least two ferromagnetic films antiferromagnetically coupled together across a nonferromagnetic spacer film. The magnetic moments of the two antiferromagnetically-coupled films are oriented antiparallel, and thus the net remanent magnetization-thickness product (Mrt) of the recording layer is the difference in the Mrt values of the two ferromagnetic films. This reduction in Mrt is accomplished without a reduction in the thermal stability of the recording medium because the volumes of the grains in the antiferromagnetically-coupled films add constructively. In a magnetic recording rigid disk application, the magnetic layer comprises two ferromagnetic films, each a granular film of a sputter deposited CoPtCrB alloy, separated by a Ru spacer film having a thickness to maximize the antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between the two CoPtCrB films. One of the ferromagnetic films is made thicker than the other, but the thicknesses are chosen so that the net moment in zero applied magnetic field is low, but nonzero.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium for data storage uses a magnetic recording layer having at least two ferromagnetic films antiferromagnetically coupled together across a nonferromagnetic spacer film. The magnetic moments of the two antiferromagnetically-coupled films are oriented antiparallel, and thus the net remanent magnetisation-thickness product (Mrt) of the recording layer is the difference in the Mrt values of the two ferromagnetic films. This reduction in Mrt is accomplished without a reduction in the thermal stability of the recording medium because the volumes of the grains in the antiferromagnetically-coupled films add constructively. In a magnetic recording rigid disk application, the magnetic layer comprises two ferromagnetic films, each a granular film of a sputter deposited coPtCrB alloy, separated by a Ru spacer film having a thickness to maximise the antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between the two CoPtCrB films. One of the ferromagnetic films is made thicker than the other, but the thicknesses are chosen so that the net moment in zero applied magnetic field is low, but nonzero. In general the first and second ferromagnetic films are made of a material selected from Co, Fe, Ni and their alloys. Apart from ruthenium the spacer film may be formed of Cr, Rh, Ir, Cu and their alloys. The medium may be in the form of a disk which has an underlayer on the substrate and a protective overcoat formed on the magnetic recording layer.