Spinel video disc playback stylus
AssigneeRCA Corporation
InventorsChih C. Wang, Harry L. Pinch, Ronald F. Bates
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Abstract
An improved information storage and playback system comprising a playback stylus and a disc record. The information is recorded in the surface of the disc record and there is relative motion between the disc and the playback stylus during recovery of the recorded information. The stylus is fabricated out of a dielectric support material and contacts the record disc surface during the recovery of the information. The improvement comprises employing a playback stylus whose dielectric support material is single crystal magnesium aluminate spinel. The spinel composition comprises a ratio of MgO to Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 of from about 1:1 to about 1:2.5.
Claims4
In an information storage and playback system comprising a playback stylus and a disc record wherein information is recorded in the surface of the disc record;
- wherein the stylus is fabricated out of a dielectric support material;
- wherein there is relative motion between the disc and the playback stylus during recovery of the recorded information;
- and wherein the stylus contacts the record disc surface during the recovery of the information;
- the improvement wherein said stylus dielectric support material is single crystal magnesium aluminate spinel comprised of a ratio of MgO to Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 of about 1:1 to about 1:2.5 and having a surface with a (100) orientation, and further comprising a conductive layer of epitaxial .alpha.-tantulum having a surface with a (110) orientation formed on said spinel (100) surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.