Abstract: An optical data storage medium containing a preferably transparent substrate which has optionally already been coated with one or more reflecting layers and onto the surface of which a photorecordable information layer, optionally one or more reflecting layers, and optionally a protective layer or an additional substrate or a top layer are applied, which data storage medium can be recorded on and read using blue or red light, preferably laser light, wherein the information layer contains a light-absorbing compound and optionally a binder, characterized in that at least one triazacyanine dye is used as the light-absorbing compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 20, 2002
Date of Patent:
November 4, 2003
Assignee:
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Horst Berneth, Friedrich-Karl Bruder, Wilfried Haese, Rainer Hagen, Karin Hassenrück, Serguei Kostromine, Peter Landenberger, Rafael Oser, Thomas Sommermann, Josef-Walter Stawitz, Thomas Bieringer