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Information recording medium having a glass substrate

US5008176A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 1988
Grant dateApr 16, 1991
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Expiry dateSep 28, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/2457
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An information recording disk for recording an information signal along a track defined by a depression on the disk as a change of physical property of a recording material deposited on the track comprises a disk-shaped glass substrate made of a glass and carries a groove corresponding to the track. The groove has a surface roughness substantially smaller as compared to the surface roughness caused at a bottom surface of a groove on a silica glass substrate when both the disk-shaped glass substrate and silica glass substrate are dry-etched under same conditions. The disk-shaped glass substrate comprises SiO.sub.2 component and one or both of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and BaO components with substantially no alkali components. Further, a recording layer comprised of the recording material which changes in physical property responsive to a projected energy beam is deposited on the substrate such that the depression is formed in correspondence with the track.

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