Rca Inc.

James Kane

Michael T Gale

Hanspeter Schweizer

Karl H Knop

Hans P Kleinknecht

The recording blank comprises a substrate having a non-etchable surface which incorporates a given surface relief pattern diffractive structure, an etchable metal overcoating in contact with the diffractive structure which overcoating has a smooth exterior surface, and a photoresist layer in contact with this smooth exterior surface. This permits a simple technique to be employed in fabricating a high quality embossing master.

Recording blank and method for fabricating therefrom diffractive

By flow-melting low-melting point electroplated metal structures, each corresponding to a white-manifesting region of the embossing master, any originally re-entrant shaped structure becomes non-re-entrant. Further, the flow-melting provides a brighter white color capability for the filter embossed in a thermoplastic film.

Method for fabricating a diffractive subtractive filter embossing master

A diffractive subtractive filter is made tunable by controllably varying the index of refraction of a fluid medium in contact with a surface relief pattern of a solid diffractive phase medium. A liquid crystal is the preferred fluid.

Tunable diffractive subtractive filter

A method of optically monitoring the thickness of a layer of material being deposited on a substrate within a reaction chamber comprises forming on a body a diffraction grating profile, exposing the grating profile to a beam of light while depositing the material on both the substrate and the grating profile, whereby the grating profile functions as a relief pattern diffracting the light beam into diffracted beams of various orders, measuring the intensity of the first order (I.sub.1) and second order (I.sub.2) beams to obtain a ratio signal (I.sub.2 /I.sub.1), and then transmitting the ratio signal to processing means for determining the aspect groove width of the relief pattern, whereby the thickness of the depositing layer is determined from a pre-established relationship dependent upon the aspect groove width.

Optically monitoring the thickness of a depositing layer

A recording blank, composed of at least one diffraction grating substrate, such as nickel, covered with a layer of photoresist is used to produce an embossing master by exposing the photoresist to picture information composed of respective white and non-white manifesting regions; developing the exposed photoresist to reveal the grating portions underlying solely the white manifesting regions; electroplating and/or etching the revealed portions to level and obliterate the revealed grating portions, and then removing the remainder of the photoresist.

Fabrication of diffractive subtractive filter embossing master

Certain volatile organotin compounds are volatilized in a heated carrier gas stream and brought into contact with a preheated substrate to be coated in an atmosphere containing oxygen. The process is particularly applicable to deposition of tin oxide on glass faceplates of cathode ray tubes.

Process for depositing transparent electrically conductive tin oxide

A surface relief pattern, e.g. a surface relief hologram, is substantially linearly transferred to a hard durable substrate, capable of being used as a medium for permanent storage of the pattern or as a master for replicating the hologram, from a photoresist coated on the substrate, by exposing the photoresist and the substrate to a photoresist developer bath and a chemical bath capable of etching the substrate at a rate substantially proportional to the development rate of the photoresist. This technique allows the transfer of surface relief patterns with dimensions on the order of one micron or less, and is applicable to the formation of surface relief holographic patterns in permanent media for archival storage and to making master surface relief holograms.

Generation of permanent phase holograms and relief patterns in durable

Certain volatile organotin compounds are vaporized in a heated carrier gas stream and brought into contact with a preheated substrate to be coated in an atmosphere containing oxygen. Indium oxide coatings may be doped with tin by vaporizing an organotin compound and an indium chelate of a .beta.-diketone and bringing the vapors in contact with a heated substrate in an oxidizing atmosphere.

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James Kane