Abstract:
A film thickness inspecting mechanism includes a light source disposed below a substrate, a CCD unit for detecting a light beam (transmitted light beam) emitted from the light source and transmitted through the substrate and converting the detected light beam into an electric signal (detected signal) commensurate with the detected intensity of the light beam, a substrate feeder having a plurality of light shield plates for blocking a light beam emitted from the light source at given intervals, and a substrate holder for holding the substrate.
Abstract:
An optical recording medium comprising a recording layer containing ultrafine particles of a metal selected from the Group 8 and Group 1B elements, said particles having an average particle size of 1 nm to 50 nm, and surfaces thereof being modified with an adsorptive compound.
Abstract:
An image transfer apparatus preventing transfer misregistration is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a driving roller, a following roller, and a carry including a guide plate and a cover film, wherein an image receiving sheet and a photosensitive material, which are overlapped with each other, are sandwiched by the guide plate and the cover film and then nipped between the driving roller and the following roller in the carry so as to be pressed and conveyed, and a pair of beam members extending along a conveying direction of the carry are disposed at the sides of the guide plate with the cover film being placed therebetween and the upper end portions of the beam members are projected from the upper surface of the cover film laid on top of the photosensitive material.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an optical information recording medium comprising a substrate, a first recording layer, a second recording layer and a third recording layer, superposed in this order. Each of the first, second and third recording layers is made of an organic material, and has such a specific real part of a complex refractive index and an imaginary part thereof that the resulting recording medium shows a high reflectance.
Abstract:
A method of optically recording information on an information recording medium comprising a disc-shaped substrate having a pregroove comprising a groove having a depth of 800 to 2,000 angstroms and a half width of 0.2 to 0.7 .mu.m thereon, a recording layer comprising a dye for optically recording information by means of a laser beam which is provided on the substrate, and a reflecting layer of a metal which is provided on the recording layer is disclosed. The recording method is carried out by irradiating a bottom part of the pregroove having the recording layer thereon with a laser beam from the substrate side under rotation of the recording medium. Further, an information recorded medium which is recorded with information by the above method is also disclosed.
Abstract:
To provide a method for producing fine particles, including: forming on a surface of a base material a concavo-convex pattern made by arranging a plurality of convex portions on the surface; forming fine particles made of a fine particle material on at least part of the concavo-convex pattern; and releasing the formed fine particles from the concavo-convex pattern.
Abstract:
In order to record an interference fringe pattern in a recording layer of a medium, a plurality of laser beams are caused to interfere so as to form interference fringes in the recording layer; and during a time period over which the plurality of laser beams are caused to interfere, the following steps are continuously performed: (1) producing a signal varying according to a shift of a specific position in the recording layer; and (2) shifting a fringe-forming position in the recording layer by changing a phase of at least one of the laser beams or moving the recording layer based upon the signal produced in the step (1).
Abstract:
In order to record an interference fringe pattern in a recording layer of a medium, a plurality of laser beams are caused to interfere so as to form interference fringes in the recording layer; and during a time period over which the plurality of laser beams are caused to interfere, the following steps are continuously performed: (1) producing a signal varying according to a shift of a specific position in the recording layer; and (2) shifting a fringe-forming position in the recording layer by changing a phase of at least one of the laser beams or moving the recording layer based upon the signal produced in the step (1).
Abstract:
There are provided a patterned member which has densely arranged pits on the surface and which is easily manufactured, and a method for manufacturing such a patterned member. A patterned member includes a substrate 10, a thermally deformable heat mode photoresist layer 20 provided on the substrate 10, pits 21 formed on the photoresist layer 20. The pits 21 are arranged in line along a plurality of tracks which are substantially parallel to one another, and as viewed in a direction along which the tracks Tn extend, each pit 21 on one track is positioned at a position corresponding to a midpoint between two adjacent pits arranged on an adjacent track.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an optical recording method and an optical recording apparatus for holographically recording information allowing for reductions in uneven consumption of the material through the thickness of a recording layer during recording to achieve high density recording and an increased recording capacity, an optical recording medium, and an optical reproducing method and an optical reproducing apparatus using the optical recording method. The optical recording method includes irradiating the optical recording medium with an information beam and a reference beam, dividing at least one of the information beam and the reference beam into two or more between a light source thereof and an optical recording medium, and adjusting the optical path lengths of the divided information beams and reference beams so that they focus on points different from each other through the thickness of the recording layer.