Abstract: A method of fabricating a visible spectrum optical component includes: providing a substrate; forming a resist layer over a surface of the substrate; patterning the resist layer to form a patterned resist layer defining openings exposing portions of the surface of the substrate; performing deposition to form a dielectric film over the patterned resist layer and over the exposed portions of the surface of the substrate, wherein a top surface of the dielectric film is above a top surface of the patterned resist layer; removing a top portion of the dielectric film to expose the top surface of the patterned resist layer and top surfaces of dielectric units within the openings of the patterned resist layer; and removing the patterned resist layer to retain the dielectric units over the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for improving visibility of an image display device which is capable of providing an image display device excellent in anti-reflection properties and bright-field contrast even using an optical layered body including a light-transmitting substrate having in-plane birefringence, such as a polyester film. The method of the present invention is a method for improving visibility of an image display device that has an optical layered body including a light-transmitting substrate having in-plane birefringence and an optical functional layer disposed on one surface of the substrate. The method includes the step of disposing the optical layered body such that the slow axis showing a greater refractive index of the light-transmitting substrate is in parallel with the vertical direction of a display screen of the image display device.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a magnetic layer including an alloy having an L10 type crystal structure as a main component thereof, a plurality of underlayers arranged between the substrate and the magnetic layer, and a barrier layer made of a material having an NaCl structure. The plurality of underlayers include at least one crystalline underlayer including Mo as a main component thereof, and at least one of Si and C in a range of 1 mol % to 20 mol % and an oxide in a range of 1 vol % to 50 vol %. The barrier layer is provided between the magnetic layer and the at least one crystalline underlayer including Mo.

Abstract: The embodiments disclose a data storage device including a thickness gradient heat sink layer deposited over a heat sink layer deposited over a substrate, a thickness gradient non-magnetic thermal resist layer deposited over the thickness gradient heat sink layer, and a magnetic layer deposited over the thickness gradient non-magnetic thermal resist layer.

Abstract: A method comprising recording data related to a start-up procedure on at least one of a plurality of recording layers disposed on an optical record carrier for reading back the recorded data during subsequent start-ups, the selection of the at least one recording layer based on properties of the at least one recording layer is disclosed. The technique reduces the optical record carrier start-up time and is useful for DVD, HD-DVD and BD recorders and/or players.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a non-metallic interlayer between a magnetic data storage layer and a heat sink layer, wherein interface thermal resistance between the interlayer and the heat sink layer is capable of reducing heat flow between the heat sink layer and the magnetic data storage layer. The apparatus may be configured as a thin film structure arranged for data storage. The apparatus may also include thermal resistor layer positioned between the interlayer and the heat sink layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multi-layer optical recording medium having n recording layers (n?3) in which recording and reproduction of information are carried out by laser light, the multi-layer optical recording medium including: a file system area configured to be disposed near a last logical address in an area used as a logical address space in which stream data is recorded, wherein in the other recording layers different from the recording layer in which the file system area near the last logical address is disposed, the logical address space is not allocated to an area overlapping with the file system area in a layer stacking direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to recording methods for recording information on a dual layer recordable disk, and to corresponding recording devices. In one such method and recording device the OPC-area is variably located on a layer of the disk. In a preferred embodiment the OPC-area is located relative close to the radius where the data stream switches from the first layer to the second layer. This reduced additional time required for jumping to a fixed OPC-area. Furthermore, in another such method and device the information to be recorded is equally divided over both layers of the dual layer disc. This avoids additional time required for finalization.

Abstract: A ferroelectric recording medium includes a ferroelectric recording layer on an electrode layer, which includes an insulative layer on the ferroelectric recording layer, and includes non-continuous electrically conductive coating portions on the insulative layer.

Abstract: A recording method for irradiating a multi-layered optical recording medium with a laser beam to record information thereon. The optical recording medium can form a first information recording layer that is the farthest from a light incident surface, a second information recording layer that is the second farthest from the light incident surface, and at least one third information recording layer that is located closer to the light incident surface than the second information recording layer is. The method is to record information on the second information recording layer when all the information recording layers other than the second information recording layer are either blank or have been completely recorded. This allows for realizing high-quality information recording in consideration of adherence of foreign matters or occurrence of scratches.

Abstract: Recordable DVD+R and DVD+R/W optical discs with two (or more) information layers are developed to double the data storage capacity and video recording time. A method and device are proposed to make dual layer DVD disc recordings compliant with the dual layer DVD-ROM standard Recording the data in a DVD-ROM compliant way on the dual layer DVD+R or DVD+R/W disc is obtained by shifting the middle zone area towards the inner radius of a disc in such a way that the data zones of both layers are filled up with data.

Abstract: The invention relates to recording methods for recording information on a dual layer recordable disk, and to corresponding recording devices. In one such method and recording device the OPC-area is variably located on a layer of the disk. In a preferred embodiment the OPC-area is located relative close to the radius where the data stream switches from the first layer to the second layer. This reduced additional time required for jumping to a fixed OPC-area. Furthermore, in another such method and device the information to be recorded is equally divided over both layers of the dual layer disc. This avoids additional time required for finalization.

Abstract: A high density recording medium with a super-resolution near-field structure including a mask layer comprising high melting point metal oxide or silicon oxide. A high density recording medium with a super-resolution near-field structure includes a sequential stack of a second dielectric layer, a recording layer, a protective layer, a mask layer, a first dielectric layer, and a polycarbonate layer, wherein the mask layer comprises high melting point metal oxide or silicon oxide to generate a near field by optically or thermally inducing physical changes in the crystalline structure and optical properties of the high melting point metal oxide or silicon oxide.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magneto-optical recording medium in which reading of recorded information is performed through domain wall displacement in a reproduction layer is provided, in which magnetic separation of groove side-wall portions is performed more reliably; as a result a magneto-optical recording medium with satisfactory recording and reproduction characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium according to the present invention includes a first information recording layer on which information is to be recorded by laser light; and a second information recording layer on which information is to be recorded by the laser light which has passed through the first information recording layer. The first information recording layer includes at least one of a reproduction-only area and a recording and reproduction area. The second information recording layer includes a test recording area. At least one of the reproduction-only area and the recording and reproduction area, and the test recording area is located such that one of the reproduction-only area and the recording and reproduction area includes an area of the first information recording layer through which the laser light for recording information in the test recording area passes.

Abstract: Various embodiments and methods relating to providing constructive interference of light between a reflective layer and an imageable layer are disclosed.

Abstract: A magneto-optical medium has a recording layer having a plurality of columns extending in a lamination direction, and a reproduction layer which is placed below the recording layer and which functions as a nucleus for the columns.

Abstract: A description is given of a multi-stack optical data storage medium (20) for rewritable recording using a focused radiation beam (30) entering through an entrance face (16) of the medium (20) during recording. The medium (20) has a substrate (1). Deposited on a side thereof is a first recording stack (2) with a phase-change type recording layer (6). The first recording stack (2) is present at a position most remote from the entrance face (16). At least one further recording stack (3), with a phase-change type recording layer (12) is present closer to the entrance face (16) than the first recording stack (2). A metal reflective layer of Cu, transparent for the radiation beam (30), is present in the further recording stack (3) and has a thickness between 2 and 10 nm. A transparent spacer layer (9) is present between the recording stacks (2, 3).

Abstract: A read-only recording medium for achieving a carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) using a super-resolution near-field structure (Super-RENS) on which information has been prerecorded includes a substrate having the information recorded on its surface, a reflective layer formed from a phase change material on the substrate, a first dielectric layer formed on the reflective layer, and a mask layer formed from metal oxide or nanoparticles on the first dielectric layer.

Abstract: The invention is a magneto-optical recording medium characterized by containing at least a soft magnetic layer, a protective layer, a resin layer having a servo pattern formed thereon, a reflecting film, a lower dielectric material film, a recording film, an upper dielectric material film, and a cover layer, formed on a substrate in this order.

Abstract: A server blade may comprise a processor and a network interface. The network interface can be configured be connected to a network remote the server blade. The server blade may be configured detect a property of an entity connected to the network. The server blade may be further configured as a field replaceable unit. Optionally, the server blade may further comprise an enclosure which encloses the processor.

Abstract: An optical recording medium and an optical recording and reproduction device including the same, wherein the optical recording medium comprises a substrate, a reflective layer formed on the substrate, a recording layer formed on the reflective layer, a first protective layer formed on the recording layer and a transparent heat radiating layer formed on the first protective layer for promoting dispersion of heat from the recording layer, and light is focused on the recording layer from an optical system via a side at which the first protective layer is formed to prevent heat buildup, erasure of recorded signals and damage to the optical recording medium.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprises an information-recording film and a ferromagnetic film on a substrate. The information-recording film is composed of, for example, an amorphous ferrimagnetic material having perpendicular magnetization. Further, the ferromagnetic film is composed of a magnetic material which has saturation magnetization larger than that of the information-recording film. Accordingly, the leak magnetic flux from the ferromagnetic film is larger than that from the information-recording film. The magnetic recording medium and a magnetic recording apparatus are obtained, which are excellent in thermal stability and which are preferred to perform super high density recording.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided which has a reflective film, a lower dielectric film, a recording film and an upper dielectric film stacked in this order on a substrate, and is adapted to receive light from the side of the upper dielectric film and reproduce a signal by utilizing at least reflected light from the recording film. The optical recording medium is characterized in that a surface of the recording film at an interface with the upper dielectric film has a surface roughness of not greater than 4 ?.

Abstract: Disclosed are magneto-optical recording media comprising at least a reflection layer, a recording layer and a dielectric layer laminated on a substrate in this order, wherein the thickness of the dielectric layer is not less than 140 nm or wherein the dielectric layer is provided by the lamination of upper dielectric layer and lower dielectric layer in which the thermal conductivity of the upper dielectric layer is higher than that of the lower dielectric layer. By arranging the thickness of the dielectric layer in a specific range, the surface roughness of a media in not more than 1.5 nm, and providing a reflection layer composed of a noble metal alloy, achieved is a magneto-optical recording medium able to record constantly in near-field magneto-optical recording, suitable for narrow track pitch, and having excellent SNR, resolution, and recording sensitivity.

Abstract: An optical disk is made of tracks that are magnetically separated from one another by scanning a focused light beam over lands between tracks at a predetermined power and annealing to lower the magnetic anisotropy of a magnetic layer on the lands, and is provided with a power testing region comprising one or more tracks for finding the predetermined annealing power at the location of at least one of the group consisting of a specific region within the data region, a region more to the inner side than the innermost track of the data region, and a region more to the outer side than the outermost track of the data region. Thus, an optical disk and a manufacturing method for the same can be provided that have a high recording density and with which annealing can be implemented in a short time and at the correct annealing width.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium, which includes a substrate and an amorphous magnetic layer, made of an amorphous magnetic material, for magnetic recording of data, is provided with an underlayer between the substrate and the amorphous magnetic layer, the underlayer being made of amorphous metal element, and having a mean thickness of 10 nm or less. In this manner, movement of magnetic domain walls of the amorphous magnetic layer is effectively limited by minute irregularities on a surface of the underlayer. This realizes a stable formation of a minute recording mark. This realizes recording having a sufficient signal quality, even when the high-density recording is performed by forming such a minute recording mark that a shortest length of the recording mark is less than 100 nm. Moreover, this allows the magnetic recording medium to have a simplified layer structure.

Abstract: Disclosed are magneto-optical recording media including at least a reflection layer, a recording layer and a dielectric layer laminated on a substrate in this order, wherein the thickness of the dielectric layer is not less than 140 nm or wherein the dielectric layer is provided by the lamination of upper dielectric layer and lower dielectric layer in which the thermal conductivity of the upper dielectric layer is higher than that of the lower dielectric layer. By arranging the thickness of the dielectric layer in a specific range, the surface roughness of a media in not more than 1.5 nm, and providing a reflection layer composed of a noble metal alloy, achieved is a magneto-optical recording medium able to record constantly in near-field magneto-optical recording, suitable for narrow track pitch, and having excellent SNR, resolution, and recording sensitivity.

Abstract: A magneto-optical disk of the present invention includes a substrate and a recording layer disposed above the substrate, and reproduces an information signal by a DWDD system, using light incident from the substrate side. The optical disk further includes a first dielectric layer disposed between the substrate and the recording layer and a second dielectric layer disposed on the recording layer opposite to the substrate, wherein the recording layer is initialized with light having a wavelength &lgr; incident from the second dielectric layer side, and the thickness of the second dielectric layer is in a range of &lgr;/(12×n) to &lgr;/(2×n) (where n is a refractive index of the second dielectric layer).

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium comprising four magnetic layers including a mask layer, a reproduction layer, an intermediate layer and a recording layer, wherein the reproduction layer and the recording layer each have a direction of easy magnetization extending in a layer stacking direction at room temperature, the mask layer and the intermediate layer each have a direction of easy magnetization extending in an in-plane direction at room temperature, the mask layer, the reproduction layer, the intermediate layer and the recording layer have Curie temperatures Tc1, Tc2, Tc3 and Tc4, respectively, which satisfy relationships of Tc3<Tc2, Tc3<Tc4 and Tc3<Tc1, and the intermediate layer is a rare-earth-rich magnetic layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film-surface light-incident type magneto-optical recording medium which is used by means of an objective lens having a large NA value and is excellent in productivity and yield, and a magneto-optical recording apparatus. According to the present invention, there is provided a magneto-optical recording medium for conducting recording or reading-out from the film surface side of the recording medium by traveling of a flying head incorporated with an objective lens having a numerical aperture (NA) of not more than 0.95 and not less than 0.8, wherein at least a reflective film, a recording layer, a transparent dielectric layer, a transparent resin layer and a lubricant layer are laminated on a substrate in that order.

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium includes at least a reflective layer and a recording layer formed in this order on a substrate, in which record and reproduction of information are carried out by irradiating the medium with laser beam from a recording layer side. The reflective layer includes two or more thin film layers different in surface roughness, of which one near the substrate has a surface tension smaller than a surface tension of one near the recording layer. The medium exhibits a coercive force and CNR of a recording layer of a magneto-optical recording medium to realize high density recording by contriving the constitution of the recording layer.

Abstract: The magneto-optical storage medium includes: a reproduction layer exhibiting in-plane magnetization at room temperature and changing to perpendicular magnetization above a transition temperature Tp1; a first in-plane magnetized layer disposed adjacent the reproduction layer and constituted by an in-plane magnetized film having a Curie temperature Tc2 around the transition temperature Tp1; a storage layer constituted by a perpendicularly magnetized film for storing information; and at least one supplementary reproduction section, interposed between the storage layer and the first in-plane magnetized layer, constituted by a first supplementary reproduction layer and a second in-plane magnetized layer, the first supplementary reproduction layer exhibiting in-plane magnetization at room temperature and changing to perpendicular magnetization above a transition temperature Tp3, the second in-plane magnetized layer being disposed adjacent the first supplementary reproduction layer and constituted by an in-pla

Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer that changes reversibly between a crystalline state and an amorphous state. The irradiation of the recording layer with laser beams at a predetermined wavelength changes the recording layer from one selected from the group consisting of the crystalline state and the amorphous state to the other state. The absorptance Ac of the laser beams in the recording layer when the recording layer is in the crystalline state is larger than the absorptance Aa of the laser beams in the recording layer when the recording layer is in the amorphous state. Crystallization accelerating layers for accelerating the change of the recording layer from the amorphous state to the crystalline state are formed in contact with both surfaces of the recording layer.

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium according to the present invention includes a reproducing layer having in-plane magnetization at room temperature and shifting to have perpendicular magnetization at temperatures at and above a critical temperature, a first in-plane magnetized layer having a Curie temperature in the vicinity of the critical temperature, a second in-plane magnetized layer having a Curie temperature higher than that of the first in-plane magnetized layer, and a recording layer made of a perpendicularly magnetized film, provided in that order.

Abstract: Magneto-optical storage media designed for optical storage systems such as disk drives with optical flying heads. Dielectric layers are designed and implemented to maximize optical coupling between the flying optical head and the media and to reduce variations of signals with flight height of the flying optical head.

Abstract: A bias magnet (magnetic head) is driven when data is read from an MSR disk. When data reading is awaited in a condition in which “reproduction still” is turned on, the bias magnet is not driven.