摘要:
The recording sensitivity can be improved of a magneto-optical recording medium having a laminar structure consisting of a first dielectric layer, a recording layer, a second dielectric layer and reflecting layer successively formed on a transparent substrate plate by forming the reflecting layer from an alloy consisting of aluminum and from 0.05 to 3 atomic % of a rare earth element such as neodymium and gadolinium in place of pure aluminum as in conventional magneto-optical recording media.
摘要:
An improvement is proposed in the method for the preparation of a magnetic recording medium by forming a magnetic recording layer of a magnetic alloy on the surface of a non-magnetic substrate plate of, e.g., silicon so as to impart the magnetic recording medium with improved CSS (contact-start-stop) characteristics still without affecting the magnetic recording density. The improvement can be obtained by subjecting the surface of the substrate plate, prior to the formation of the magnetic recording layer, to a surface-roughening treatment which is performed either by a dry-process such as plasma etching and reactive ion etching or by a wet-process of anisotropic etching by using an aqueous solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide as the anisotropic etching solution. In particular, the plasma etching or reactive ion etching is conducted in the presence of a particulate scattering source body of aluminum, etc. placed in the vicinity of the CSS zone so that the surface-roughening effect is limited to the CSS zone by the deposition of particulates scattered therefrom leaving the recording zone unroughened not to decrease the recording density.
摘要:
An improvement is proposed in the method for the preparation of a magnetic recording medium comprising a non-magnetic substrate plate of silicon and a magnetic recording layer formed on the substrate surface by the method of bias-sputtering, by which the magnetic recording layer can be imparted with an unexpectedly large coercive force. The improvement can be accomplished by the use of a silicon substrate plate which has a volume resistivity not exceeding 2 ohm-cm at room temperature. The improvement is more remarkable when the contact resistance between the silicon substrate plate and the substrate holder is kept not to exceed 10 kohm during the bias-sputtering for the formation of the magnetic recording layer on the substrate surface.
摘要:
Proposed is a magnetic recording medium consisting of a non-magnetic substrate and a magnetic recording layer formed thereon by the sputtering method, in which the non-magnetic substrate is a disk of single crystal silicon having a surface substantially in parallel with the crystallographic (111) plane with an angle of deviation not exceeding 15.degree., of which the surface roughness Rp does not exceed 25 nm. By virtue of the use of the unique material for the substrate, the magnetic recording layer is outstandingly stable as compared with conventional aluminum or glass substrates and the magnetic layer formed thereon by sputtering has a greatly improved coercive force of 1300 oersted or higher.
摘要:
Proposed is a magnetic recording medium consisting of a non-magnetic substrate and a magnetic recording layer formed thereon by the method of sputtering, in which the non-magnetic substrate is a disk of single crystal silicon having a surface of the crystallographic orientation of (100), the surface roughness Rp being 40 nm or smaller. By virtue of the use of the unique material for the substrate, the magnetic recording layer is outstandingly stable as compared with conventional aluminum or glass substrates and the magnetic layer formed thereon by sputtering has a greatly improved coercive force of 1300 oersted or higher.
摘要:
A magneto-optical recording medium having a layered structure consisting of a first dielectric layer, magnetic recording layer, second dielectric layer and reflecting layer successively formed on a transparent substrate plate can be imparted with improved performance relative to the recording sensitivity and the C/N ratio when the recording layer and the second dielectric layer each have such a thickness that the angle .delta. given by the equation .delta.=tan.sup.-1 (.epsilon./.theta.k), in which .epsilon. is the Kerr ellipticity of the regenerative light and .theta.k is the Kerr rotation angle, does not exceed 10.degree., the thickness of the recording layer being in the range from 8 nm to 13.5 nm and the thickness of the second dielectric layer satisfying the relationship given by the inequality0.06.ltoreq.nd/.lambda..ltoreq.0.14,in which d is the thickness of the second dielectric layer, .lambda. is the wavelength of the regenerative light for reading-out of the recorded signals and n is the refractive index of the material forming the second dielectric layer to the regenerative light of wavelength .lambda..
摘要:
Provided is a silicon target material in which particles are not easily generated during a sputtering process and to form a low-defect (high quality) silicon-containing film. A silicon target material having a specific resistance of 20 Ω·cm or more at room temperature is used for forming a silicon-containing film. The silicon target material may be polycrystalline or noncrystalline. However, when the silicon target material is single-crystalline, a more stable discharge state can be obtained. Also, a single-crystal silicon in which crystals are grown by an FZ method is a preferable material as a highly-pure silicon target material because its content of oxygen is low. Further, a target material having n-type conductivity and containing donor impurities is preferable to obtain stable discharge characteristics. Only a single or a plurality of silicon target materials according to the present invention may be used for sputtering film formation of the silicon-containing film.
摘要:
A photomask is manufactured from a photomask blank comprising a transparent substrate and a light-shielding film consisting of upper and lower layers of transition metal-containing silicon base materials, the content of O+N in the upper layer being higher than that of the lower layer. The light-shielding film is processed in two steps by fluorine dry etching through a resist pattern such that a lower portion of the film is left behind, and oxygen-containing chlorine dry etching for removing the remainder of the film.
摘要:
A photomask blank which is manufactured by depositing a phase shift film on a substrate and irradiating the phase shift film with high-energy radiation to effect substrate shape adjusting treatment is inspected by measuring a surface topography of the photomask blank after the substrate shape adjusting treatment, removing the phase shift film from the photomask blank, measuring a surface topography of the treated substrate after removal of the phase shift film, and comparing the surface topographies, thereby evaluating a warpage change before and after removal of the phase shift film, due to a stress of the phase shift film having undergone substrate shape adjusting treatment.
摘要:
In a phase shift mask blank comprising a transparent substrate and a phase shift film thereon, after the phase shift film is formed on the substrate, it is surface treated with ozone water having an ozone concentration of at least 1 ppm. The resulting phase shift film is of quality in that it experiences minimized changes of phase difference and transmittance upon immersion in chemical liquid during subsequent mask cleaning step or the like.