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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2002
Horst Berneth, Leverkusen, DE;
Friedrich-Karl Bruder, Krefeld, DE;
Wilfried Haese, Odenthal, DE;
Rainer Hagen, Leverkusen, DE;
Karin Hassenrück, Düsseldorf, DE;
Serguei Kostromine, Swisttal, DE;
Peter Landenberger, Köln, DE;
Rafael Oser, Krefeld, DE;
Thomas Sommermann, Bergisch Gladbach, DE;
Josef-Walter Stawitz, Odenthal, DE;
Thomas Bieringer, Odenthal, DE;
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, DE;
Abstract
Optical data carrier comprising a preferably transparent substrate which may, if desired, have previously been coated with one or more reflection layers and to whose surface a light-writeable information layer, if desired one or more reflection layers and if desired a protective layer or a further substrate or a covering layer have been applied, which can be written on and read by means of infrared light, preferably laser light, particularly preferably light having a wavelength in the range 750-800 nm, in particular 770-790 nm, where the information layer comprises a light-absorbent compound and, if desired, a binder, characterized in that at least one cobalt(III) phthalocyanine in which the Co metal centre bears two axial substituents R and R which represent, independently of one another, CN, SCN, alkoxy or alkylthio is used as light-absorbent compound.