High-Density and High-Data-Transfer-Rate Optical Disk with Blue Laser Diode and Ag–In–Sb–Te Phase-Change Material

Abstract

We studied phase-change recording using a 405 nm blue laser diode, an objective lens of numerical aperture (NA)=0.6 and Ag–In–Sb–Te phase-change material. We report land and groove recording on a conventional disk structure with a 0.6-mm-thick and 120-mm-diameter PC substrate. We confirmed the possibility of achieving a high density, 12 GB capacity and a high data-transfer rate of 30 Mbps, corresponding to that of a read-only digital versatile disk (DVD-ROM) under the conditions of 6.5 m/s recording speed, 0.18 µm/bit linear density (minimum mark length 0.27 µm) and 0.42 µm trackpitch.