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US 5,312,664 AGranted
Optical recording media
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorPranab K. Raychaudhuri
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Abstract
Optical recording films made from alloys of antimony-tin and a third element exhibit improved properties when formed in a sputtering atmosphere containing a mixture of inert and organic gases. The amount of organic gas in the sputtering atmosphere is controlled. Improvements include higher amorphous to crystalline transition temperature and greater stability of the recorded and unrecorded film.
Claims6
An optical recording film represented by the formula:
- (Sb.sub.a Sn.sub.b X.sub.c).sub.100-m-n C.sub.m H.sub.n
- wherein X is an element selected from the group consisting of indium, germanium, aluminum, cadmium, and zinc;
- a, b, c, m and n represent atomic percents of the elements in the SbSnX alloy wherein 55<a<75;
- 5<b<40;
- 5<c<30;
- 0<m<15 and 0.ltoreq.n<5;
- and m and n represent the atomic percent of carbon in the recording film that are effective to increase the transition temperature over recording films of identical SbSnX composition, but not containing carbon or hydrogen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.