Organic Dye 25 GB Write-Once Disk with In-Groove Structure

We have developed a new write-once disk technology, which is applicable to the Blu-ray disc system. An organic dye was adopted for the recording layer, which was optimized for the recording of the laser diode wavelength of 405 nm. We adopted a concave in-groove for the recording tracks to avoid thermal interference with adjacent recording tracks due to undesired and uneven dye pooling between adjacent tracks, considering the advantage of fabrication by spin-coating. We optimized the in-groove structure for low-to-high modulated recording. A sample disk, which was made by the conventional spin-coat process, showed good recording and readout characteristics with remarkably low cross-talk and cross-writing.