Property study of non-chalcogenide phase change materials for optical media

• Main Author: Tan, Kar Wei.
• Other Authors: Gan Chee Lip
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Photonics and optoelectronics materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15324
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The unique structure switching capability of phase change materials upon laser irradiation has allowed their use as recording medium such as CD-RW, DVD-RAM and Blu-ray discs. The improvement in technology as well as the increasing quality of images, sounds and video files had created the demand f...