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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/1105 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/1105 ;
Abstract
In order to improve reproduction characteristics of a magneto-optical recording medium in a case of being subject to a magnetically induced super resolution readout process utilizing a blue-violet laser beam, there is provided a magneto-optical recording medium having a surface roughness of 0.3 nm or less on a surface of a substrate on which recording/reproduction magnetic layers are formed or a surface of a dielectric film formed on the substrate.