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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2009
Applicant:
Stefan Knappmann, Rottweil, DE;
Inventor:
Stefan Knappmann, Rottweil, DE;
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A write-once optical recording medium is described, which in addition to the write-once properties also has rewritable properties. The optical recording medium has a recording layer with at least a first recording sublayer and a second recording sublayer for recording information marks by alloying material of the at least first and second recording layers. The materials of the at least first and second recording sublayers are chosen such that the alloyed material is a phase-change material adapted for recording additional data as phase changes of the alloyed material.