Preface |
Acknowledgments |
List of Contributors |
Introduction / Takao SuzukiChapter 1: |
Rewritable Optical Recording Media / 1.1: |
Magneto-Optical Recording Media / 1.2.1: |
Phase-Change Media / 1.2.2: |
Recordable Write-Once Media / 1.3: |
Ablative Type / 1.3.1: |
Writable CD-R / 1.3.2: |
Phase-Change WORM / 1.3.3: |
Alloying WORM / 1.3.4: |
References |
Rare Earth-Transition Metal Amorphous Alloy Media / Richard J. GambinoChapter 2: |
History / 2.1: |
First Disk Experiments / 2.1.2: |
Composition Dependence Properties / 2.2: |
Ferrimagnetism / 2.2.1: |
Gadolinium-Cobalt / 2.2.2: |
Gd-Fe and Tb-Fe / 2.2.3: |
Ternary Systems / 2.2.4: |
Macroscopic Ferrimagnets / 2.2.5: |
Deposition Methods / 2.3: |
Magnetic Anisotropy / 2.4: |
New MO Recording Media Based on Pt/Co and Pd/Co Multilayers and Pt-Co Alloys / Peter F. CarciaChapter 3: |
Pt/Co and Pd/Co Multilayers: General Properties / 3.1: |
Multilayer Structure / 3.2.1: |
Deposition Techniques / 3.2.2: |
Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy and Coercivity / 3.2.3: |
Magnetization of Multilayers / 3.2.4: |
Magneto-Optical Properties / 3.2.5: |
Thermomagnetic Properties / 3.2.6: |
Thermal Stability and Corrosion Resistance / 3.2.7: |
Influence of Preparation Method and Growth Conditions on Magnetic and Structural Properties of Multilayers / 3.3: |
Preparation Method / 3.3.1: |
Underlayers / 3.3.2: |
Substrate Etching / 3.3.3: |
MO Recording Properties / 3.4: |
Recording at 800 nm / 3.4.1: |
Blue-Wavelength Recording / 3.4.2: |
Write/Erase Cycling / 3.4.3: |
Near-Field Optical Recording / 3.4.4: |
Pt-Co Alloys / 3.5: |
Garnet Media / Chapter 4: |
Garnet / 4.1: |
Crystal Structure / 4.1.1: |
Magnetic and Magneto-Optical Properties / 4.1.3: |
Magnetic Property / 4.1.3.1: |
Magneto-Optical Effects / 4.1.3.2: |
Film Fabrication / 4.1.4: |
Sputter Deposition / 4.1.4.1: |
Pyrolysis Method / 4.1.4.2: |
Recording Performance / 4.1.5: |
Intermetallic Compounds and Ferrites / Masanori Abe ; James C. SuitsChapter 5: |
MnBi / 5.1: |
Structure / 5.1.1: |
Magnetic Properties / 5.1.2: |
Structural Stabilization / 5.1.3: |
Magneto-Optical Recording Performance / 5.1.5: |
PtMnSb Heusler Alloy / 5.2: |
Structure and Magnetic Properties / 5.2.1: |
Media Fabrication / 5.2.2: |
Non-Garnet Ferrites for Magneto-Optical Recording Media / 5.3: |
Ferrite Magneto-Optical Disk / 5.3.1: |
Structure of Disk / 5.3.2.1: |
Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy / 5.3.2.2: |
Magneto-Optical Effect in Ferrite / 5.3.3: |
Light Absorption in Ferrite / 5.3.3.1: |
Magneto-Optical Enhancement in Ferrites / 5.3.3.2: |
Faraday Rotation and Figure of Merit / 5.3.3.3: |
Ferrite Magneto-Optical Recording Media / 5.3.4: |
Spinel Ferrites / 5.3.4.1: |
Hexagonal Ferrites / 5.3.4.2: |
Other Non-Garnet Ferrites / 5.3.4.3: |
The Europium Chalcogenides / 5.4: |
Early Work / 5.4.1: |
Structural and Magnetic Properties / 5.4.3: |
Optical Properties / 5.4.4: |
Optical Absorption / 5.4.4.1: |
Band Structure / 5.4.4.2: |
Red Shift / 5.4.4.3: |
Basic Description / 5.4.5: |
EuSe / 5.4.5.2: |
EuS / 5.4.5.3: |
EuO / 5.4.5.4: |
Magneto-Optical Storage Device / 5.4.6: |
Summary / 5.4.7: |
Domain Dynamics and Recording Physics in Magneto-Optical Recording Media / Dieter MergelChapter 6: |
Introduction: The Scope of Recording Physics / 6.1: |
Principle of MO Recording / 6.1.1: |
Comparison with Bubble Domain Memories / 6.1.2: |
Bubble Materials / 6.1.2.1: |
Magnetostatic Equilibrium of a Normal Magnetic Bubble / 6.1.2.2: |
Wall Structure and Wall Motion / 6.1.2.3: |
Forces on a Domain Wall Subjected to a Temperature Gradient / 6.1.3: |
Magnetodynamic Model of Thermomagnetic Domain Formation / 6.1.4: |
LLG Formalism / 6.1.4.1: |
Computer Simulation / 6.1.4.2: |
Outline of this Chapter / 6.1.5: |
Recording-Relevant Parameters of MO Media / 6.2: |
Magnetic Properties of Amorphous RE-TM Thin Films / 6.2.1: |
Influence of the Deposition Process on the Microstructure of the Deposited Films / 6.2.2: |
Domain Wall Energy and Structure / 6.2.3: |
Laser-Induced Temperature Profiles on the Disk / 6.2.4: |
Representative Values of the Bubble Parameters / 6.2.5: |
Summary "Recording-Relevant Parameters of MO Media" / 6.2.6: |
Magnetic Reversal Processes and Coercive Effects in Single and Exchange Coupled Layers / 6.3: |
Domain Nucleation and Domain Wall Pinning as a Function of K[subscript u] / 6.3.1: |
Micromagnetic Models Founded Scaling Laws / 6.3.1.1: |
Experimental Values of the Scaling Power / 6.3.1.2: |
Models of Thermally Activated and Time-Dependent Magnetic Reversal / 6.3.2: |
Phenomenological Introduction / 6.3.2.1: |
A Model of Simultaneous Nucleation and Growth of Domains / 6.3.2.2: |
Models of Thermally Activated Magnetic Reversal / 6.3.2.3: |
Monte Carlo Simulations of Dendritic Domain Growth / 6.3.2.4: |
Experimental Results on Coercivity and their Correlation with the Microstructure of Thin Films / 6.3.3: |
The Magnetic Aftereffect in RE-TM Films / 6.3.3.1: |
Interpretation of Activation Volumes in Amorphous RE-TM Thin Films / 6.3.3.2: |
Ultra-Thin Co Layers / 6.3.3.3: |
Magnetic Reversal in CoPt Alloy Films / 6.3.3.4: |
Computer Simulations of Magnetic Reversal Based on the Landau-Lifshitz Equation / 6.3.4: |
Lattice Geometry and Material Parameters / 6.3.4.1: |
Relative Energy During Reversal / 6.3.4.2: |
Structure of Domains and Walls / 6.3.4.3: |
Nucleation in the Patchy Lattice / 6.3.4.4: |
Wall Motion in a Patchy Lattice / 6.3.4.5: |
Domain Formation in Exchange-Coupled Layers / 6.3.5: |
Experimental Method and Theoretical Analysis / 6.3.5.1: |
Domain Formation Models / 6.3.5.2: |
Coercivity Model for a Trilayer System / 6.3.5.3: |
Summary "Reversal Processes" / 6.3.6: |
Thermomagnetic Write Process / 6.4: |
MO Test Recorder, Write Control, and Readout Measurements / 6.4.1: |
Characteristic Recording Parameters / 6.4.2: |
Domain Nucleation and/or Wall Motion / 6.4.3: |
Shapes of Thermomagnetically Written Domains / 6.4.3.1: |
Domain Nucleation at the Curie Radius / 6.4.3.2: |
Influence of Material Properties and Process Conditions / 6.4.4: |
Dependence of H[subscript supp] ("Suppression Field," "Erase Field," "Onset Field") on RE-TM Composition / 6.4.4.1: |
Compositional Dependence of the Field for Minimum Write Noise, H[subscript min N] / 6.4.4.2: |
Roughness of the Dielectric Underlayer / 6.4.4.3: |
Exchange-Coupled Magnetic Capping Layers / 6.4.5: |
Summary "Thermomagnetic Write Process" / 6.4.6: |
Domain Instability and Single-Layer Direct Overwrite / 6.5: |
Readout Stability / 6.5.1: |
Domain Erasure / 6.5.2: |
Principle of Stroboscopic Polarized Light Microscopy and Single-Layer Direct Overwrite / 6.5.3: |
Observation of Domain Formation and Erasure / 6.5.4: |
Operating Margins and Recording Performance / 6.5.5: |
Domain Collapse Rate and Wall Mobility / 6.5.6: |
Summary "Domain Instability" / 6.5.7: |
Signal and Noise, Domain Irregularities / 6.6: |
Distinction between Different Noise Sources / 6.6.1: |
Disk Noise, Illustration: Pt/Co Multilayers and RE-TM Films for Blue Recording / 6.6.2: |
Write Noise Due to Domain Irregularities / 6.6.3: |
Irregularity of the Domain Boundary / 6.6.3.1: |
Domain Length Jitter and Write Noise / 6.6.3.3: |
Recording Performance of RE-TM Media / 6.6.4: |
Compositional Dependence of the Recording Noise / 6.6.4.1: |
Dependence of CNR on T[subscript c] - T[subscript comp] / 6.6.4.2: |
Summary "Signal and Noise" / 6.6.5: |
Summary and Conclusions / 6.7: |
Appendix / 6.8: |
Demagnetizing Field of a Cylindrical Domain / 6.8.1: |
Homogeneous Magnetization / 6.8.1.1: |
Radially Varying Magnetization / 6.8.1.2: |
SNR and Linear Data Bit Density / 6.8.2: |
Exchange-Coupled Films / Shigeru TsunashimaChapter 7: |
Properties of Exchange-Coupled Films / 7.1: |
Exchange Coupling and Interface Domain Walls / 7.2.1: |
Magnetization Process / 7.2.2: |
Exchange Bias and Interface Wall Energy / 7.2.3: |
Control of the Spin Orientation (Magnetic Anisotropy) / 7.2.4: |
Control of Spin Polarization (Curie Temperature) / 7.2.5: |
Application to Magneto-Optic Recording Media / 7.3: |
Separation of Recording and Readout Functions for High-Performance Media / 7.3.1: |
Thermomagnetic Domain Replication and Bias Effect / 7.3.2: |
Short-Wavelength Recording Media / 7.3.3: |
Magnetic Superresolution / 7.3.4: |
Light Intensity Modulation Direct Overwrite / Jun SaitoChapter 8: |
General Introduction / 8.1: |
Direct Overwrite Function / 8.1.1: |
Outline of Light Intensity Modulation Direct Overwrite / 8.1.2: |
Outline of High-Density Recording Technique / 8.1.3: |
Objective and Structure of this Chapter / 8.1.4: |
Light Modulation Direct Overwrite on Exchange-Coupled Multilayered MO Disk / 8.2: |
Process of LIM-DOW / 8.2.1: |
Three Elemental Techniques / 8.2.3: |
LIM-DOW Exchange-Coupled Multilayered MO Material / 8.2.3.1: |
Light Intensity Modulation (LIM) / 8.2.3.2: |
Initialization / 8.2.3.3: |
Mechanism of LIM-DOW / 8.2.4: |
Experiment and Result / 8.2.5: |
High-Density Recording on a LIM-DOW Disk / 8.3: |
Model of Thermal Diffusion / 8.3.1: |
Parameter Fitting / 8.3.3: |
Fitting Specific Heat; Measuring Thermal Efficiency / 8.3.3.1: |
Fitting Heat Diffusivity; Measuring Thermal Time Constants / 8.3.3.2: |
Fitting Adiabatic Index; Measuring Velocity Dependence of Writing Threshold Laser Power / 8.3.3.3: |
Characteristics of Thermal Diffusion in LIM-DOW Disk / 8.3.4: |
High-Density Recording Experiment and Result / 8.3.5: |
Magnetically Induced Superresolution / Masahiko KanekoChapter 9: |
Limit of Conventional Detection / 9.1: |
Limit of Density Caused by the Recording Process / 9.2.1: |
Limit of Density Caused by the Readout Process / 9.2.2: |
Outline of Magnetically Induced Superresolution / 9.3: |
Superresolution in Optical System Using a Pinhole / 9.3.1: |
Two Methods for Superresolution in Magneto-Optical Disks / 9.3.2: |
Principle of MSR / 9.4: |
Read-Once Superresolution Disk / 9.4.1: |
Front Aperture Detection / 9.4.2: |
Rear Aperture Detection / 9.4.3: |
Disk Characteristics / 9.5: |
Spatial Frequency Dependence of Carrier and Noise Levels / 9.5.1: |
Read Power Dependence of Carrier / 9.5.2: |
Readout Waveform of MSR Disks / 9.5.3: |
Crosstalk / 9.5.4: |
Optical Transfer Function of Superresolution / 9.6: |
Superresolution Optical System / 9.6.1: |
Optical Diffraction Theory of Conventional Readout of Optical Disk / 9.6.2: |
Pinhole Model on the Disk Plane for MSR / 9.6.3: |
Comparison of Calculated OTF with Measured OTF / 9.6.4: |
Data Recording and Jitter Analysis / 9.7: |
Data Recording / 9.7.1: |
Writing Precompensation and Equalization / 9.7.2: |
Jitter Measurements / 9.7.3: |
Other Superresolution Disks / 9.8: |
MSR Disk by FAD for Recording with Magnetic Field Modulation / 9.8.1: |
MSR Disk with an In-Plane Magnetization Layer (CAD) / 9.8.2: |
MSR Disk by FAD with a Function of Direct Overwriting by Light Intensity Modulation / 9.8.3: |
Magneto-Optical Recording Systems / Y. Nakane ; H. Yoshimura ; S. IgarashiChapter 10: |
Current Products / 10.1: |
Outline of the Disk Operation Technology / 10.2.1: |
Focus Servo System / 10.2.1.1: |
Tracking Servo System / 10.2.1.3: |
Spindle Servo System / 10.2.1.4: |
Slide Servo System / 10.2.1.5: |
Phase Locked Loop (PLL) of the Data Clock / 10.2.1.6: |
Servo Parameters on the Disk / 10.2.1.7: |
Design of Optical and Thermal Properties / 10.2.2: |
Temperature Dependence of the Write Power Window / 10.2.2.1: |
Design of Write Laser Power / 10.2.2.3: |
Design of Erase Laser Power / 10.2.2.4: |
Design of Recording Layer Structure / 10.2.2.5: |
Design of Optical Properties / 10.2.2.6: |
Design of Thermal Properties / 10.2.2.7: |
The 5.25" MO Disk and Drive System / 10.2.3: |
Disk Dimension / 10.2.3.1: |
Track Format / 10.2.3.3: |
Sector Format / 10.2.3.4: |
Defect Management Strategies / 10.2.3.5: |
MiniDisc / 10.3: |
Introduction and Features of the MiniDisc System / 10.3.1: |
System Concept and Specifications / 10.3.2: |
Random Access Functions / 10.3.3: |
Signal Recording Format / 10.3.4: |
ATRAC Data Compression / 10.3.5: |
Construction of Recordable MiniDisc / 10.3.6: |
Magnetic Field Modulation Overwrite / 10.3.7: |
Magnetic Head for Overwrite / 10.3.8: |
Recording Characteristics and Film Properties / 10.3.9: |
Magnetic Characteristics and C/N / 10.3.9.1: |
Power Margin / 10.3.9.2: |
Reliability and Durability / 10.3.10: |
Future Applications / 10.3.11: |
Future Prospects / 10.4: |
Overwrite of Magneto-Optical Disks / 10.4.1: |
Techniques for Higher Density Recording / 10.4.2: |
Shorter Wavelength Light Sources / 10.4.3: |
Advances in the MO Drive System / 10.4.4: |
DVD / Chapter 11: |
CD-Rewritable Technology / 11.1: |
DVD Technology / 11.2: |
Future Trends / 11.3: |
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